229 Quotes by Peter Bergen

This is not rhetoric. This is for real.

It's extraordinary that the chain of custody of these tapes has not been traced back. After all, they're releasing these tapes very frequently, on average once every six weeks, yet it seems that American intelligence agencies or other intelligence agencies are not capable of tracing back the source of these tapes.

In Islamist jurisprudence you warn enemies before you attack them. It is typical behavior.

In a final e-mail (she said): 'We're helping lots of kids with medical care' -- this is on the day that Marla died -- 'This place continues to break my heart. Need to get out of here, but it's hard.'

He's not living in a cave - he's living somewhere with more amenities. His most recent statements show a Talmudic attention to the news.

Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering.

If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden is as a person, if you don't have a sense of what al Qaeda, the organization, was on 9/11, 9/11 appears to be more or less inexplicable.

Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in World War II, World War II is simply not comprehensible.

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.