“Would it be ironic if we had to go back to Iraq to rid it of the Al Quaeda that wasn't there before we got there to rid it of Al Queda?” IfsIraqAlsIronic Author:Gary Gulman
“If think the pig was terrified because he was fully aware that after segment he was going to be fed to Al Roker.” IfsThinkingFedsAlsPigsTerrified Author:Christian Finnegan
“If you refuse to see Superman Returns this summer, what you're saying about yourself is: I heart Al Qaeda.” IfsHeartReturnSummerRefuseAlsAbout YourselfAl Qaeda Author:Christian Finnegan
“My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I found more jazz on the radio, and began looking for records. My paper route money, and later, money I earned working after school in a print shop and a butcher shop went toward buying jazz records. I taught myself the alto saxophone and the drums in order to play in my high school dance band.” EndsPlaySchoolOrderFoundRecordsTeacherChildhoodTaughtBandPaperHigh SchoolJazzWestRadioBuyingShopsPrintAlsRoutesButchersSaxophoneArmstrongAfter SchoolMusic TeacherWest EndJazz Records Author:Bill Crow
“...liberals said the war was a failure because we hadn't captured Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Then we killed al-Zarqawi and a half-dozen of his aides in an air raid. Then they said the war was a failure because ... you get the picture.” SaidWarHalfAirAlsDozenThey SaidCaptured Author:Ann Coulter
“There is ample evidence that the horrific events of Sept. 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, who masterminded the Sept. 11th attacks, to Saddam Hussein, who did not.” Has BeensFocusEventsEvidenceAlsSaddamHusseinBin LadenAl QaedaOsama Bin LadenHorrificSept 11 Author:Robert Byrd
“I've long suspected that one of the reasons why human beings haven't yet figured out how to carry on a conversation with bottlenosed porpoises, African gray parrots, et al. in their own language is quite simply that we're terrified of what they might say to us - not least because it's entirely possible that they'd be right.” HumansLongReasonMightLanguageHuman BeingsHavensConversationReason WhyAlsGrayTerrifiedParrotsPorpoises Author:John Michael Greer
“And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of Fort McMurray. Pump and steam and dig and drill and get that oil out of the sand in any and every way we can. Every drop of oil from Alberta is one less drop from some fascist theocracy, or some brutal warlord; one less cent into the treasuries of Russia's secret police and al-Qaeda's murderers.” IfsWorldWayChoicesGoalSecretMoralCitizensPoliceOilRussiaSandAlsCentsBrutalBetter PlaceMurdererSteamFascistsAl QaedaPumpsTreasuryDrillsFortsTheocracySecret PoliceWarlordsAlberta Author:Ezra Levant
“So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben - or Al Gore, Paul Krugman, or any other climate-change doomsayer - to put his wealth where his words are. I'll bet $10,000 that the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes will fall over the next 20 years. Specifically, I'll bet that the average annual number of Americans killed by these violent weather events from 2011 through 2030 will be lower than it was from 1991 through 2010.” YearsFallNextChallengesWealthNumbersEventsClimateClimate ChangeAverageStormViolentWeatherAlsDeclineFloodHurricanesGoreAnnualsTornadoes Author:Donald J. Boudreaux
“On the science of global climate change, I'm an agnostic. I've seen Al Gore's movie, and I've read reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I've also listened to the 'skeptics.' I don't know who's right.” KnowsClimateClimate ChangeReportsAlsAgnosticGoreSkeptic Author:Robert Bryce
“I introduced legislation in the Senate that I believe is more narrowly focused at the actual threat, which is radical Islamic terrorism, and what my legislation would do is suspend all refugees for three years from countries where ISIS or Al Qaida control substantial territory.” YearsBelieveCountryThreeI BelieveThreatTerrorismFocusedRadicalIslamicAlsTerritoryThree YearsSenateLegislationRefugeeIsisIslamic Terrorism Author:Ted Cruz
“There are millions of peaceful Muslims across the world, in countries like India, where there is not the problems we are seeing in nations that are controlled - have territory controlled by Al Qaida or ISIS, and we should direct at the problem, focus on the problem, and defeat radical Islamic terrorism. It's not a war on a faith; it's a war on a political and theocratic ideology that seeks to murder us.” WorldShouldWarCountryProblemPoliticalNationsMillionsFocusSeeingDirectIndiaMurderDefeatTerrorismPeacefulIdeologyRadicalIslamicAlsControlledTerritoryIsisIslamic Terrorism Author:Ted Cruz
“It is important for everybody to insure that the process will go on, that the ceasefire will hold. Of course, there is no ceasefire against Daesh [the Islamic State], Jabhat al Nusra, and Al Qaeda.” ImportantStatesCoursesProcessGoes OnIslamicAlsAl QaedaIslamic StateCeasefire Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif
“People have been fed misinformation. The fact is that the fighting that is going on on the ground in Syria is with Al Qaeda, with Jabhat al Nusra, with Daesh. The pockets, small pockets, of other groups are usually surrounded by these various extremist groups. . . . Once they stop fighting, there is nothing for the Syrian government to hit other than the terrorist organizations.” PeopleHas BeensFactsGovernmentFightingGroupsOrganizationVariousTerroristPocketsFedsAlsSyriaExtremistAl QaedaMisinformationExtremist Groups Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif
“Nidal Hasan communicated with Anwar al-Awlaki, a known radical cleric, asked about waging jihad against his fellow soldiers. The problem is because of political correctness, the [Barack] Obama administration, like a lot of folks here, want to search everyone's cell phones and e-mails and not focus on the bad guys. And political correctness is killing people.” PeopleWantProblemPoliticalGuyKnownFocusFellowsKillingSoldierFolksPhonesRadicalAdministrationCellsBarackAlsMailBad GuysCell PhonePolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessJihadFellow Soldiers Author:Ted Cruz
“We had people coming to our Foreign Relations Committee and saying, "Oh, we need to arm the allies of Al Qaida." They are still saying this. It is a crazy notion. This is the biggest debate we should be having is is regime change a good idea; has it been a good idea.” PeopleNeedsShouldStillsIdeasCrazyArmsRelationNotionDebateAlsAlliesGood IdeasRegimesCommitteesForeign RelationsRegime Change Author:Rand Paul
“Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong. Hitting the reset button with Vladimir Putin - recall that she called Bashar Al-Assad a positive reformer and then she opened an embassy and then later she said, over, and over, and over again, "Bashar Al-Assad must go." Although she wasn't prepared to do anything about it.” SaidChallengesPolicyPreparedClintonAlsForeign PolicyRecallsHittingButtonsPutinReformersAssadResetEmbassyReset ButtonBashar Al Assad Author:Carly Fiorina
“I think it's a huge mistake. I think regime change in Syria, and this is what - I've been saying this for several years now. In 2013 when we first went in, I said, you are going to give arms to the allies of al Qaida, to radical jihadists? That's crazy.” ThinkingGivingYearsFirstsSaidMistakeCrazyHugeArmsRadicalAlsAlliesRegimesSyriaRegime Change Author:Rand Paul
“In June 2002, airport security searched Al Gore. There's a lot not to like about Gore, but he's not a terrorist. Gore said he was glad he was searched. Why? To spare a terrorist the trouble? This is a serious national issue; why must liberals lie? Searching Al Gore is purely a religious act. It is the purposeless fetishistic performance of ritual in accordance with the civic religion of liberalism.” SaidLyingReligiousIssuesTroubleSecuritySeriousPerformancesGladTerroristLiberalismAlsRitualSparesAirportsJuneGoreCivicsAirport Security Author:Ann Coulter
“I may be middle class, but I'm hard. 'Al dente', you could say.” MayHardClassMiddleMiddle ClassAls Author:Jimmy Carr
“[S]ince their candidate lost, many [Democrats] have allowed their hatred of George W. Bush to put them in the tragic position to be cheering for the same result in Iraq as Osama Bin Laden and al Zarqawi.” LostResultsPositionHatredDemocratIraqCandidatesTragicAlsCheerBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Joe Scarborough
“Here's some exciting news - according to The New York Post, both Al Gore and John Kerry are thinking of running for president in 2008. Gore and Kerry again! Political experts say it's too early to tell who would lose bigger!” ThinkingRunningPoliticalPresidentLosesNew YorkNewsBiggerExcitingPostsExpertsAlsGoreJohn Kerry Author:Jay Leno
“Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in The Incoherence of the Philosophers against the very idea of laws of nature, on the ground that any such laws would put God's hands in chains. According to al-Ghazzali, a piece of cotton placed in a flame does not darken and smoulder because of the heat, but because God wants it to darken and smoulder. After al-Ghazzali, there was no more science worth mentioning in Islamic countries.” WantDoeIdeasCountryHandsLawPiecesCenturyFiguresIslamPhilosopherChainsFlamesHeatIslamicAlsAlasLaws Of NatureInfluentialCottonIncoherence Author:Steven Weinberg
“Shortly after news of Zarqawi's death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people.” PeopleMediaNewsIntentionOppressionAlsAl Qaeda Author:Mike Fitzpatrick
“Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.” FirstsDetailsAlsDedicatedGore Author:Peter Jennings
“John Kerry is recovering nicely after having prostate surgery. But the doctors did tell him it would be several months before he could be sexually active again. All the other Democratic candidates have been very supportive. Joe Lieberman called to wish him the best. The Rev. Al Sharpton called to offer prayers. Former President Bill Clinton called Mrs. Kerry and asked if she was lonely.” IfsHas BeensWould BeWishPresidentPrayerMonthsOffersLonelyDoctorsBillsDemocraticClintonActiveFormerCandidatesAlsSurgerySupportiveSexuallyJohn KerryRecoveringProstatePresident Bill Clinton Author:Jay Leno
“Al Qaeda has declared war on the Somali pirates. That is awesome! Evil against evil. Like Alien versus Predator or Cheney versus his lawyer.” WarEvilLawyerAliensAlsVersusPirateAl QaedaPredatorSomali Author:Craig Ferguson
“Hezbollah and the government are only two of 18 political factions in Lebanon, most of them armed. There are militant Christian groups, Palestinian radicals, al-Qaida, Druze militias and even armed bands of Marxists still operating in Lebanon.” StillsTwoGovernmentChristianPoliticalGroupsBandRadicalAlsPalestinianMarxistFactionsMilitantMilitiaLebanonHezbollah Author:Richard Engel
“Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn't record.” PeopleThinkingShouldIdeasWantedRecordsOrganizationAlsGore Author:Glenn Danzig
“The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around Satan Smiting. Treason? Oh, of course not. They were on a religious pilgrimage and got lost. Happens all the time. I knew a kid who went to Lutheran Bible Camp and turned up six years later in a Christian Identity compound with a shaved head and a Hitler mustache.” YearsHappensKidsChristianCoursesFoundLostReligiousIdentityBrokenCitizensSixTrainingCellsSatanAlsCampsAfghanistanCompoundsTreasonPilgrimageMustacheBuffaloBroken UpLutheransShaved Head Author:James Lileks
“The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war: the 'Mission Accomplished' declaration, the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam's capture, the transfer of sovereignty, the three rounds of voting, the Plan for Victory, the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Every new milestone, however illusory, allows the Administration to avoid thinking ahead, to the years when the mistakes of Iraq will continue to haunt the U.S.” ThinkingYearsKindWarThreeMistakeSupportPlansEventsVictoryRoundsIraqMissionsAdministrationAccomplishedVotingAlsShoreCaptureDeclarationSovereigntySaddamTestimonyHusseinTransfersIllusoryMilestoneShort LivedThinking AheadMission Accomplished Author:George Packer
“There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he still says so. There was no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida. But he still says so. And thus, gripping firmly these figments of his own imagination, Mr. Cheney lives on, in defiance, and spreads - around him and before him - darkness, like some contagion of fear. They are never wrong, and they never regret - admirable in a French torch singer, cataclysmic in an American leader.” StillsImaginationLeaderDarknessRegretWeaponsMassDestructionIraqSpreadSingersAlsLinksSaddamHusseinDefianceAdmirableWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionTorchesGrippingContagionNever RegretFigments Author:Keith Olbermann
“Iraqi Kurds, out of desperate necessity, have forged one of the most watchful and vigilant anti-terrorist communities in the world. Terrorists from elsewhere just can't operate in that kind of environment. Al Qaeda members who do manage to infiltrate are hunted down like rats. This conservative Muslim society did a better job protecting me from Islamist killers than the U.S. military could do in the Green Zone in Baghdad.” WorldKindJobsCommunityEnvironmentMilitaryMembersGreenConservativeTerroristManageDesperateZoneAlsKillersElsewhereRatsAl QaedaVigilantBetter JobsBaghdadForgedHuntedIslamistsKurdsGreen Zone Author:Michael Totten
“You know who's upset now with ISIS? Al Qaeda. It's because ISIS is getting more attention than Al Qaeda. So now, Saturday night will be Ayman al-Zawahiri bobblehead night.” KnowsNightAttentionUpsetAlsSaturdayIsisAl QaedaSaturday Night Author:David Letterman
“Al Qaeda is not a nation-state and it has not signed the Geneva Conventions. It shows no desire to obey the laws of war; if anything it directly violates them by disguising themselves as civilians and attacking purely civilian targets to cause massive casualties.” IfsWarStatesShowsLawDesireNationsCausesTargetMassiveAlsConventionsAttackingCiviliansAl QaedaCasualtiesGenevaGeneva Convention Author:John Yoo
“Personally, I do not think that torture is necessary. But it may be the case that interrogation methods that go beyond questioning, but do not arise to the level of torture, may be necessary to get actionable intelligence from high-ranking al Qaeda leaders” ThinkingMayLevelsLeaderCasesMethodAriseTortureAlsQuestioningAl QaedaRankingInterrogation Author:John Yoo
“There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.” Has BeensBookWholeSchoolSongCultureCitiesCenturyPoetHundredWineDrinkingRoundsBarsAlsMedievalBaghdadDrinking WineCaliphsBooksellers Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“Rulers like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser started subsidizing bread as a way to buy loyalty, or at least obedience, and this system became so pervasive that the Tunisian scholar Larbi Sadiki described countries who used it as dimuqratiyyat al-khubz - "democracies of bread." But the problem with this system of offering bread in exchange for genuine democracy is that it can never last - sooner or later, the bread will run out, and people will start demanding bread and roses too.” PeopleWayCountryProblemRunningLastsUsedDemocracyRoseLoyaltyGenuineBreadObedienceAlsOfferingScholarRulersSooner Or LaterEgypt Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“It [9/11 tragedy] was the spectacle, what al-Qaeda gets its main power from - why their terrorism truly earns the word "acts." They are very theatrical, always - the simultaneous violence, the grandiose, symbolic gestures (the number 911, "United" and "American" flights, the World Trade as target etc). And then its aftermath.” WorldUnitedNumbersViolenceTragedyTradeTerrorismFlightEtcTargetAlsGesturesSymbolicTheatricalAl QaedaAftermathWorld TradeGrandioseSimultaneous Author:Porochista Khakpour
“The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We like what the media has created of the mob bosses in movies and TV and books, because it's something the average person never comes into contact with, it's almost as outwardly outlandish as a sexy vampire, and so we can romanticize it, it's non-threatening.” ThinkingPersonsBookFactsMediaTvsAverageSexyContactVampireBossAlsThreateningAverage PersonBrandoOutlandishDe Niro Author:Tod Goldberg
“Hillary Clinton failed to mention that her agreement with a precipitous withdrawal and declaration of victory in 2011 helped left swaths of territory and weaponry from ISIS. She failed to mention that she described Bashar al-Assad as a positive reformer and opened an American embassy. She failed to mention a complete failure strategy in Libya, which now is enabling ISIS to move into Libya.” MovingLeftVictoryStrategyClintonAgreementAlsTerritoryDeclarationIsisEnablingWithdrawalReformersLibyaAssadWeaponryEmbassyBashar Al Assad Author:Carly Fiorina
“I still think a reasonable question is, would we be better off with [Muamar] Gadhafi and Bashar al-Assad still in there and Mubarak still there and Saddam [Hussein] there than the crap we have got looking at us now?” ThinkingStillsReasonableAlsCrapSaddamBetter OffHusseinAssadMubarakBashar Al Assad Author:Chris Matthews
“The Noor Al-Hussein Foundation (Light of Al-Hussein) was created to complement my husband's efforts to advance development in the country.” CountryLightEffortDevelopmentHusbandFoundationMy HusbandAlsHusseinComplement Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“I started bettysbattle.org, which is a charity in honor of my mom, associated with the Muscular Dystrophy Association, a charity that is near and dear to my heart. We turned to them for resources and information. They were there for us every step of the way, from the day that Mom was diagnosed. I formed a charity in honor of my mom and them. I'm the national ALS ambassador for MDA. I do their telethon every year.” WayYearsHeartStepsInformationMomMy HeartHonorResourcesCharityDearMy MomAlsAssociationEvery StepAmbassadorsMuscular Dystrophy Author:Nancy O'Dell
“Here I was going to work with Pacino thinking, "I'm not going to get lucky twice. There's no way. This guy is going to hand me my ass." He looks like the kind of guy who's going to hand you your ass. It's Al Pacino.” ThinkingWayLooksKindHandsGuyLuckyAssAlsThis GuyGoing To Work Author:Johnny Depp
“If anybody is getting their ass handed to them, it's not Al [Pachino]. It's coming [toward you]. I'm psychotic.” IfsAssAlsPsychotic Author:Johnny Depp
“I started pulling gags on Al [Pachino]. That was the moment I realized that he was absolutely out of his mind. I mean that he's certifiably insane. I wouldn't spend a night in a room where he's at.” MindMeanMomentsNightRoomsI RealizedInsaneAlsPullingGags Author:Johnny Depp
“I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a little bit to get a sense of the world that he might be coming into, in the '30s when jazz was changing.” WorldLittlesMightBitsLittle BitEnglandJazzSingersBranchesAlsComing OutJohnson Author:Ed Speleers
“I think it's important to remember the tensions between Turkey and Russia predate this jet shoot down by some time. I mean, Russia's long been Bashar al-Assad's strongest backer.” ThinkingMeanLongImportantRememberRussiaTensionStrongestAlsTurkeysJetAssadBashar Al Assad Author:Peter Kenyon