153 Quotes About Als

  • Author George W. Bush
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    God told me to strike at Al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.

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  • Author Jack Benny
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    When you talk about the world's greatest entertainer you have to say Al Jolson because there was no one like him. Only Judy Garland and perhaps Frank Sinatra got anywhere near him!

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  • Author Jo Bonner
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    Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there.

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  • Author Julian Baggini
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    If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

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  • Author Peter Bergen
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    At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

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  • Author Peter Bergen
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    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.

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  • Author Richard Branson
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    In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be heading down the nightmare that it is today.

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  • Author Robert Baer
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    Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

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