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I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims."


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GORE VIDAL We have to continue to prove that Jews and Muslims are not enemies.
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JAY PARINI 'Empire of Self' is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted ...
JEROME CHARYN Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.
PETER JENNINGS They made peace between us; we embraced, and we have been mortal enemies ever since.
ALAIN LESAGE They made peace between us; we embraced, and we have been mortal enemies ever since.
ALAIN RENE LESAGE War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN Most of us dont become what we can be because we cant see its what we already are.
CARL HAMMERSCHLAG This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children./ Don't do your enemies' work ...
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JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL For him to call for final victory against Jews by 1.3 billion Muslims ... is a call for religious wa...
ABRAHAM FOXMAN What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, bef...
ANDREW YOUNG The world is filled with war and hostility. Parties seek allies to defeat enemies. I support the pea...
TOBA BETA I don't have a lot of time to speak... but we will speak soon.
DEYTH BANGER Humans don't have any type of interest... HAVING SO MUCH STUFF AROUND THEM AND SO LITTLE INTEREST IN...
DEYTH BANGER Chess is war without the blood and gore
DARWIN HENRY BEUNING And we looked out to see your enemies and we see that you're looking at us instead.
DAR WILLIAMS The American crusader forces, enemies of God, carried out an odious crime against the Muslims of Al-...
AL-QAEDA ...their faces were wholly burned, their eyesockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes ha...
JOHN HERSEY Even $10 billion would be insufficient to begin fixing six years of Clinton-Gore neglect of armed fo...
DICK ARMEY I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbo...
JAY PARINI I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.
PIERCE BROWN As recently as the September 11 event, the majority of Muslims were, as the rest of the world was, a...
AHMED ZEWAIL No one wants to attack their own people. Muslims here see themselves as Americans more than Muslims ...
AHMED BEDIER If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a g...
HAMZA YUSUF Well, you know, when I talked about the $87 billion, I made a mistake in how I talk about the war. B...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community r...
ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another
THOMAS JEFFERSON I think the Gore campaign has made an enormous issue of the fact that George is not smart, ... Did A...
BARBARA BUSH In recent years, war in Iraq without legitimacy gave one further jolt to the faith of Muslims in the...
EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers....
FEISAL ABDUL RAUF I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want...
IAN WILLIAMSON We're winning the war but we haven't won the war yet. I think whoever takes over this job in 20 year...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We are working on winning the one-on-one battles. We lost several games last year, where if we just ...
JAKE HUTTON I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And...
VOLTAIRE I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And...
VOLTAIRE Chris winning that tournament has made the rest of us a lot of money.
GREG RAYMER What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us ...
HENRY GEORGE He made good adjustments after the first two innings. When he gives us more than six innings, we hav...
JAVIER VALENTIN Have you ever noticed that, though we breed, raise, and kill ten billion animals per year, most of u...
MELANIE JOY Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen an...
DEAN KOONTZ I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Bush's so-called war against terrorism is actually a war against Muslims. We will protest against U....
HAFIZ HUSSAIN AHMAD He is in many ways quite a right-wing isolationist. It's because some people are naïve enough to co...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyon...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.&#...
VOLTAIRE Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
XAVIER BECERRA You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW So far we have invested some US$3.5 billion in China and we hope to invest another half a billion th...
LIM HAW KUANG We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had...
MA LONG Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisa...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI We are opportunistic. We have a very significant war chest. Our net debt is around $3 billion. It's ...
ANDREI GAIDAMAKA If we are to have a war with America, we will have no hope of winning unless the U.S. fleet in Hawai...
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO It was necessary for us to discover greater powers of destruction than our enemies. We did. But afte...
THOMAS J. WATSON We were told at the beginning of the war, 'a few billion dollars and then Iraqi oil will pay for eve...
GORDON CLARK David does everything for us, and not having him in there definitely hurts us. I'm sure he would hav...
JASON TREUTELAAR I dont think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY We made mistakes. We knew we couldn't make any mistakes and if we made one mistake the Sallies would...
JAMES SOLOMON We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO You must expect to make enemies."
"I never expect to make anything else," he said.
SUSAN KAY One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they ke...
SOURCE UNKNOWN I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
ARTHUR GOLDEN And we stand for the living, and we stand for the dead,And we looked out to see your enemies,And we ...
DAR WILLIAMS Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, ...
OLIVE SCHREINER They are 26-1; they look the same as us. We both are on tremendous winning streaks. It's sad that on...
JARRID FAMOUS If you guys are upset that Al Gore is endorsing me, attack me, don't attack Al Gore, ... I think Al ...
HOWARD DEAN Communists and Muslims are not the enemies to fear in this land, Fly. It is the food consumption tha...
RAWI HAGE We spent $94 billion on the war in Iraq last year. But we need to be pragmatic.
GREG MORTENSON I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevatin...
JURGEN HABERMAS There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but t...
REZA ASLAN I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer...
ARTHUR MILLER I think we all agree that the comments Donald Trump made in relation to Muslims were divisive, unhel...
THERESA MAY The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies ver...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our histor...
RUDY GIULIANI And we stand for the living, and we stand for the dead,
And we looked out to see your enemies, DAR WILLIAMS What's important is the people who have come on the march. We have built relationships with Muslims,...
TONY BENN He came here and made us believe winning the Cup was our destiny.
ADAM GRAVES What you see is what I call an elaborate Gore dance,
BILL BRADLEY There is a very small group of Muslims that have an agenda of violence and that is what is portrayed...
DR. AHMED N. ELREFAI In popular culture, there isn't any other conception of Islam and Muslims other than what you se...
KUMAIL NANJIANI We know that the majority of your people want this war to end and opinion polls show the Americans d...
OSAMA BIN LADEN The key to us winning is a total team effort. And we got one tonight.
GEOFF HOGAN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
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GORE VIDAL The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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GORE VIDAL It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.
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GORE VIDAL Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe a...
GORE VIDAL Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDAL Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel...
GORE VIDAL The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps for...
GORE VIDAL The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
GORE VIDAL In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upo...
GORE VIDAL My memory plays me odd tricks these days [...] Age spares us nothing, old friend. Like ancient trees...
GORE VIDAL ...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
GORE VIDAL The failure of Hellenism has been, largely, a matter of organization. Rome never tried to impose any...
GORE VIDAL But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more s...
GORE VIDAL