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A few interesting quotations from various leaders and celebrities.
"The safest place in the world for me is Afghanistan" - Osama ben Laden
"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit
a camel in the butt, it's going to be decisive." - President Bush, in a meeting with Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles
Schumer, September 13, 2001.
"This is not a battle between the U.S. and terrorism but between the free and democratic
world against terrorism." - Prime Minister Tony Blair, UK
"It's God's responsibility to forgive Bin Laden ... It's our responsibility to arrange the
meeting!" -- United States Marines
"Make no mistake, the U.S. will hunt down and punish those responsible." - President George
W. Bush
"We'll be patient, we'll be focused, and we will be steadfast in our determination. This
battle will take time and resolve but make no mistake about it, we will win." - President George W. Bush
"I don't care, dead or alive — either way, it doesn't matter to me," Bush said. "I
don't know whether we're going to get him tomorrow or a month from now or a year from now. I don't really know. But we're
going to get him."
In an interview with ABCNEWS' Sam Donaldson, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: "We want
him brought to justice. If justice happens to be a 500-pound bomb that lands on him because he wouldn't surrender, well then,
justice has been served."
"This is not an issue of any religion, Muslim or otherwise. It is not an issue of any country
or any group of people. It has to do totally with terrorism" — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,
Oct. 4, 2001
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