144 Quotes by Michael Scheuer

You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince.

And if that's what the American people want, then that's what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything in the United States is too sensitive to discuss or too dangerous to discuss is really, I think, absurd.

Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions.

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.

The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort.

The exposure of such, either firms or aircraft, just undoes years of cover building and makes America weaker.

She was always of the view that she would rather not get her hands dirty with covert action.

But at the end of the day, we settled for the worst possibility -- he was there and we didn't do anything.

Frankly when I resigned in November, there wasn't anyone.