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Merge with german page?
can we start syncing these pages? Albanische_Sprichw%C3%B6rter

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A

 * A rrohet me zemër të lepurit? --South
 * Can you live with the heart of a rabbit?

 * Ai që ndërton me djersë, mbron me gjak. --South
 * He who builds with sweat, defends with blood.

 * Ai që përton sot, pendohet mot. --Vlorë
 * Who is lazy today, regrets it later.

 * Ai që s'ka zemër, s'ka as thembër. --South
 * He who has no heart, has no heels either.

 * Asht kollaj me ia pre bishtin ujkut të vramë. --Shkodër
 * It is easy to cut the tail of an injured wolf.

 * As në parajsë mos rri vetëm. --North
 * Do not be alone even in heaven.

 * As topi i Ali Pashës s'e tund. --Elbasan
 * Even the cannon of Ali Pasha won't move it
 * Means: Something really strong

 * Amanetin nuk e tret as dheri --Krujë
 * Even the land can't dissolve the will.

B

 * Ku Balta eshtë m'ë e ëmbël se mjalta. --Vlorë
 * Where mud is sweeter than honey-- in reference to Albania.

 * Besa e shqiptarit -- si purtekë e arit. --South
 * The Albanian's oath -- like a perch of gold.

 * Bijë vëndi -- pikë argjëndi. --Berat
 * Native son -- drop of silver.

 * Bujku i mirë, ia merr me zorr bukën tokës. --Tropojë
 * A good [able] farmer takes with force the bread from the earth.

 * Burri është koka, kurse gruja është qafa.
 * English equivalent: The man is the head, the women is the neck.
 * "Each of them is important to the other. No man can live without a woman and vice-versa. Also, even if usually is the man who takes decisions, the woman gives him advices and supports her man."

 * Burri në shtëpi, si dreqi në xhami. --Elbasan
 * A man at home (not working) is like the devil in a mosque.

Ç

 * Çdo njeri është mbret në shtëpinë e tij. --South
 * Every man is king in his own home.

 * Ç'ma ka zemra, ma qit vena. --Shkodër
 * ''What I have in my heart is brought out by the wine

.''

 * Çelësi që punon, nuk ndryshket. --Mallakastër
 * The key that is used does not rust.

D

 * Dembeli është nëna e të gjithë veseve. --North
 * Laziness is the mother of all bad habits

 * Dera e përtimit, caku i mjerimit. --Librazhd
 * The door of lazyness is the boundary of misery

 * ''Dhuratat i pranon edhe mbreti".
 * English equivalent: "Even Kings accept gifts".

 * Dielli, edhe kur ka re, ndrit. --Gjirokastër
 * The sun shines even when it is cloudy.

 * Difton fmija, ç'ka shtëpia. --North
 * The child tells what goes on in the house.

 * Dita pa punë nata pa gjumë. --South
 * The day without work, the night without sleep.

 * Dora me baltë buka me mjaltë. --Kosova
 * The hand with mud, the bread with honey.

 * Dora e larë, zorrë e tharë. --South
 * Clean hand, empty stomach

 * Duket zogu që në ve. --South
 * You know the bird since it is an egg.

 * Dardha, bjen (pikë) nën dardhë.
 * The pear falls exactly underneath the pear tree. Equivalent of the English "An apple doesn't fall far from the tree."

E

 * E vërteta rri si vaji mbi ujë. --North
 * The truth prevails like oil over water.

 * Edhe ujët po të rrijë në një vend qelbet. --South
 * Even the water gets stale if it does not flow

 * Eja baba te te tregoj arat. --South

 * Come on dad, let me show you your arable land.

F

 * Fikut ulët i hyp kushdo. --Krujë
 * The low fig [fruit branch] can be climbed by everyone.

 * Fjala e plakut, e pushka e djalit. --Krujë
 * The word of the old, and the gun of the young.

 * Fillimi i mbarë është gjysma e punës.
 * A good start, is half of the work. Equivalent of the English: "Well Begun is Half Done"

G

 * Gruaja që nuk do të gatuajë, shosh gjithë ditën. --Skrapar
 * A woman who doesn't want to cook takes all day to prepare the ingredients.

 * Gur-gur, bëhet mur, mur-mur bëhet kalaja. --South
 * Stone by stone, makes a wall, wall by wall makes a castle.

Gj

 * Gjarpëri ecën dhe fshin gjurmët me bisht. --Korçë
 * The snake moves and wipes its tracks with its tail

 * Gjithsecili në punën e tij është zot. --South
 * Each person at his job is a lord

 * Gjykon puna, s'gjykon guna. --Librazhd
 * You are judged by the work, not by the clothes (appearance).

H

 * Hekuri sa punohet, aq zbukurohet. --Vlorë
 * ''The more you strike (work) the iron

, the more beautiful it becomes''

I

 * I mjeri ai që s'mendon për pleqëri. --Shkodër
 * Poor is the man who does not think of old age.

 * I riu ka fuqi, plaku mëncuri. --South
 * The young have strength, the elderly knowledge.

J

 * Jo të gjithë mund t'i fusësh në një thes.
 * "You can not put everyone in the same bag"

K

 * Kali plak të len barrën në rrugë. --North
 * The old horse drops the load in the middle of the road.

 * Kau që nuk vete në arë e pret sëpata. --Kurvëllesh
 * The Ox that refuses to work in the field gets the axe

 * Kazma në dorë, buka në gojë; kazma në katua, trasta del për miell hua. --Skrapar
 * Pickaxe in hand, bread in mouth; pickaxe lying in cellar, sack's out to borrow flour

 * Kënga për darkë, brenga për drekë. --South
 * Singing is for dinner, grief for lunch.

 * Koha është flori
 * Time is gold; equivalent to the English proverb: Time is money

 * Ku del Timi asht dhe zjarri --Rugova
 * Where there is smoke, there is a fire.

 * Ku ka bletë, ka dhe mjaltë. --Përmet
 * Where there are bees, there is honey.

 * Ku ka zemër ka dhe krahë. --South
 * Where there is heart, there are wings.

 * Kullote dhinë të të mbushë kusinë. --Gjirokastër
 * Graze the goat to fill the pot [with milk]

 * Kur s'ke mbjellë, s'ke çfarë korr. --South
 * If you haven't sown, you have nothing to reap.

 * Kur s'ke punë luaj derën. --Përmet
 * When you have nothing to do, rattle the door

 * Kush di me lavdue, din edhe me cpifë. --Krujë
 * Who knows to praise sure knows to slander.

 * Kush fërkon pulën, ha edhe vezën. --Korçë
 * Who pats the chicken, eats the egg

 * Kush fle ngrohtë ka edhe ftohtë. --Arbëreshët
 * Who sleeps warmly can also be cold.

 * Kush i kullot deshët, ai qeth dhe leshët. --Përmet
 * Who lets the rams graze gets the wool

 * Kush ka turp, vdes për bukë.  --South
 * Who is shy dies from hunger.

 * Kush mori udhë, dhe do të lodhet.  --Gjirokastër
 * Who travels will also get tired.

 * Kush nuk di ç'është lodhja, ai nuk di ç'është çlodhja. --Berat
 * ''Who does not know what tiredness is, does not to know what resting is.

 * Kush përton vdes urije. --Berat
 * Who is lazy dies from hunger.

 * Kush rri nën pemë, ha edhe kokrrat. --Korçë
 * Who stays under the tree, eats its fruits.

 * Kush s'punon, dheut i rëndon. --South
 * Who does not work, is a burden to the earth.

 * Kush zë brumë do të gatuajë. --South
 * Who starts making the dough, will also cook.

 * Kushtrimi del për të ligshtin, pse trimi kujtohet vet. --Shkodër
 * The Clarion-call is for the coward, the brave remembers on his own

 * Kujto qenin e bëj gati shkopin.
 * Remember the dog and prepare the stick.'

L

 * Liria i ka rrënjët në gjak. --South
 * Liberty has its roots in the blood.

 * Lima dalëngadalë bëri tranë gjilpërë. --South
 * Slowly-slowly, even a file can turn a beam into a needle.

M

 * Mbas shtrëngimi i duarve me një grek, numëro gishtat. --South
 * After shaking hands with a Greek, count your fingers.'

 * Malet tunden, po nuk bien. --South
 * The mountains shake but do not fall.

 * Mbill me një dorë, korr me të dyja. --South
 * Sow with one hand, reap with both.

 * Mbroje atdhenë si shqipja folenë. --Shkodër
 * Protect your fatherland like the eagle protects its nest

 * Me fal gjakun është burrni. --Kosova
 * To forgive the blood [as in revenge] is to be a man.

 * Me lopatë ari dhe shat argjëndi tundën e lëkundën edhe malet nga vëndi. --Sarandë
 * With a spade of gold and a hoe of silver even the mountains rock and sway

 * Më mirë "punë e mbarë", se "mirë se të gjej". --Shkodër
 * It's better to say "good work" than "I hope to find you well".

 * Më mirë te vdesësh më këmbë, sesa të jetosh më gjunjë. --Berat
 * It is better to die standing, than to live on your knees.

 * Mëndje e shëndoshë në trup të shëndoshë. * --[Frashëri]
 * Healthy mind, in a healthy body.

 * Mirë se të gjej, o hija e madhe! -Mirë se vjen o dembel hamë. -A kamë leje të rri pak? -Po pate me hangër rri sa të duash. --Tiranë
 * Hope to find you well, o big shadow! Welcome o lazy glutton. -Do I have permission to stay a while? If you have something to eat you can stay as long as you want.

 * Mos kij turp nga kush s'ka turp. --South
 * Do not be shy of who is shameless

 * Mos prit të të kërkojë e mira, po kërkoje. --Vlorë
 * Do not wait for good things to search for you, you search for them.

 * Mos rri si nusja në dasëm. --South
 * Do not stand like a bride at her wedding.

 * Mos u fshi si miu prapa poçes. --Skrapar
 * Do not hide like a mouse behind the pot.

 * Mos u fshi si miza nën bishtin e kalit. --Korçë
 * Do not hide like a fly under the tail of a horse.

 * Moti ndihmon atë që punon. --Berat
 * The weather helps him who works.

 * Mushka do dru, e demi kular. --Sarandë
 * The mule needs spanking, and the bull a yoke.

N

 * Në kurdhën e nxehtë, s'rrihet me çekan druri. --South
 * ''Don't strike the hot iron with a wooden hammer.

 * Nga del fjala, del dhe shpirti. --South
 * From whence comes the word, comes the soul.

 * Nga e thëna në të bërë, rri në mes një det i tërë. Or, "me të thënë e me të bërë, është në mes një mal i tërë."
 * English equivalent: Actions speaks louder than voice.
 * "There is a lot of difference between saying and doing" or, "there's a whole mountain in between saying and doing."

 * Nga puna po nuk rrodhi, domosdo do pikojë. --Vlorë
 * From work if it does not flow, it will certainly drip.

 * Nuk mund të dalë punë e madhe nga ai që nuk do të voglën. --Berat
 * You will not get a big job done from whom does not want a small one.

 * Nuk rron peshku pa uje. --Kosova
 * A fish cannot live without water.

 * Nuk zihet pleshti me dorashka. --Korçë
 * You cannot catch a flea with gloves.
 * ""Mos i shiko gunen por shikoji punen...""Berat..

Nj

 * Njeriut iu bëj njeri, qenit bëniu qen. --South
 * To a man, be man (when with men, behave like one) and to the dog, be a dog (when with "dogs", behave like one).

 * Një ujë që nuk ecën s'pihet. --Elbasan
 * The water that does not flow is not drinkable.

P

 * Paraja nuk i zgjedh njerëzit. --Vlorë
 * Money does not choose the people.

 * Pleqëria vjen me shokë. --South
 * Old age comes with friends.

 * Po kërciti dhëmbët qeni, i qëndro me shkop në dorë.
 * Translation: If a dog shows his teeth, show him the stick.

 * Po kërciti dhëmbët qeni, i qëndro me shkop në dorë. --South
 * If a dog shows his teeth, show him the stick.

 * Po nise një udhë, do kaptosh dhe sheshe, dhe male, dhe gurë. --Devoll
 * If you start on a journey, you will also cross plains, mountains and rocks.

 * Po nuk e pate të ligën brënda, s'të vjen nga jashtë. --Vlorë
 * If you do not have malice inside, it will not come from outside.

 * Po nuk qau fëmija, nuk i jep nëna sisë. --South
 * If a child does not cry, his mother will not breast feed him.

 * Po nuk u turbullua, nuk kthjellohet. --Përmet
 * If it does not get cloudy, it will not get clear.

 * Po shkove me të kërciturit gishtërinjtë sot, mos u anko nga të kërciturit e zorrëve nesër. --Vlorë
 * If you just snap your fingers today, do not complain of your intestines snapping tomorrow (i.e. hunger).

 * Pula që këndon në mbrëmje nuk bën vezë në mëngjes. --South
 * The chicken that cries at night will not lay eggs in the morning.

 * Puna e rinisë, jorgan i pleqërisë. --Tiranë
 * The work of the youth is a blanket for the old.

 * Punën e sotme mos e lër për nesër. * --[Frashëri]
 * Don't leave today's work for tomorrow.

Q

 * Qan ara se nuk i vjen fara. --Sarandë
 * Weeps the field because of no seeds.

R

 * Ruaj dhinë të pish qumështin. --Sarandë
 * Mind the goats so that you will drink their milk.

Rr

 * Rron shqiponja në majë të malit, rron dhe miza në vith të kalit. --South
 * On top of the mountain lives the eagle, and the fly lives on the horse's butt.''

S

 * S'bëhet vreshti me urata, po me shata e lopata. --South
 * The vinery is not made with blessings, but with hoes and spades.

 * S'gjuhet me zagar të lidhur. --Berat
 * You cannot hunt with a tied dog.

 * Sa më shpejt kositet livadhi; aq më shpejt lind bari. --Tropojë
 * The quicker you mow the pasture, the quicker the grass grows back.

 * Sëkush fishekët I man për vete. --Fier
 * Everyone keeps the bullets for himself.

Sh

 * Shpjere gojën te buka e jo bukën te goja. --South
 * Take the mouth to the bread, not the bread to the mouth.

 * Shqiponja fluturon në qiell, po folenë e bën në tokë. --Labëri
 * The eagle flies in the sky, but the nests on the ground.

T

 * Trupi shëndoshet me të punuar, mëndja ndërtohet me të mësuar. --South
 * The body builds up by working, the mind by studying.

 * Tosk e Gegë -- pemë nga nje degë. --Gjirokaster
 * Tosk and Geg -- tree from one branch.

U

 * Ujku e ka qafën e trashë, se ka kambët e shpejta. --Krujë
 * The wolf has a thick neck because it has fast legs.

 * Ujku fle hasmi s'fle:
 * The wolf sleeps, the Enemy doesn't

 * Ujku qimen e ndërron, po zakonin se harron.
 * '' The wolf changes its hair (appearance), but not its habit."

Unable to change past ways,i.e. Impossible! A thief can't refrain from stealing, a whore can't stop whoring, a parasite can't stop using others, a liar will never stop lying''

V

 * Vure vezën more pulën. --Krujë
 * If you put an egg, you get a chicken.

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Talk:Ann Coulter

Source of other quotes
The Associated Press just published some highlights. They're here: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/09/D8I4T0DO0.html --209.6.132.90 03:55, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I think Ann is a Klan woman. She makes stupid statements based on her bias, rather than facts. People need to boycott her low-level books that only seek to divide America. She's a race baiter in the same way as the big, fat idiot radio jock who seems to run the Republican Party.

From Wikipedia
Here are a lot of quotes that were removed from the Wikipedia article on Ann Coulter. I'll dump them here because I don't want to sort them all out. —JarlaxleArtemis 1 July 2005 22:46 (UTC)

 * NOTE: The Wikipedia data has been transferred to Talk:Ann Coulter/transwiki-2005 in order to stop editors from erroneously treating it as active article data. Please do not modify that page. Editors are welcome to extract material from that page to add it to the article, but any editing should be done in the article, not the archived discussion. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:38, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

npov?
Considering the person who spouts these soundbites this maybe a pointless question, but, aren't there any quotes that don't make her sound like a fascist idiot? 81.152.196.46 01:03, 15 November 2006 (UTC) Elmo

of course, but they're not as fun to read. Honestly, I hate her, but I do think some of these quotes are taken out of context and she is being sarcastic sometimes.

She's a lunatic guys; go ahead and put a few quotes that are a tad less crazy. Funny thing is she will STILL look like the lunatic she is. 68.183.9.226 22:56, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter#Islam
do we quote hatred here in wikiquote? Nielswik 17:48, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

 * No, we quote people. If they espouse hatred or contempt (or love or compassion or greed or wisdom, etc., etc.), and it's verifiable with cited reliable sources, it's fair game. Of course, that doesn't mean we should quote every instance of any particular idea coming from someone. Article editors should try to work out a balance of quotes that most fully represents the person's ideas, experiences, and such. But one should expect weighting toward the ideas that make the subject famous. Ann Coulter's notability comes from her deliberately acerbic promotion of conservative and religious ideas, just as Al Franken's comes from blunt liberalism and Michael Moore's from vicious, camera-as-a-weapon anti-authoritarianism. (Wait a minute! Does that mean that Coulter follows antidisestablishmentarianism? Well, not in a literal sense. But I never expected to be able to use that word in a real-world sentence! ☺) The sad fact is that these people capitalize on the obvious delight that the listening and reading public have for passionate hatred of their ideological foes. None of these folks seem to be interested in calm, rational debate, or discussing all sides of important issues. And why should they? It doesn't sell books, films, or radio shows. [sigh] Sorry about the tangent. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:22, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

 * There is no doubt in my mind that she is the Anti-Christ. But these quotes are extremely out of context but then again whenever all you ever put is just quotes then they are something out of context because you don't know what was going on at the time. For example, Eminem, before he became famous, when he broke up with a black girlfriend wrote and sang a song about how he hated black people. Obviously this wasn't true since blacks were most of his audience its just that at the time he pissed at them. Same thing here. All these quotes come from periods of weakness in judgement for her. Not that I'm saying she doesn't hate muslims, liberals, abortionists, anyone including conservatives who disagrees with her, etc. But I just feel you can't judge her for these quotes. Many people have radical views, she just lets you know about them without masking it under nice words. For the record Jeff, Michael Moore loves america more than anyone else. He has no choice but to throw in a few white lies because he's been pushed to that level to save americans from their leaders. I fully support his being president one day. Maybe then every country, including Canada, will stop burning america flags —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 99.246.59.233 (talk • contribs) 09:22, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

How can a Wikiquote violate NPOV???
If the quote consists of the person's own words, I completely fail to understand how it can be biased. I've been breezing through several of the Wikiquote articles for "controversial" public figures, and this topic of "bias" keeps coming up in the discussion pages. Someone please explain to me how a person's own words can be considered anything other than an accurate representation of that person's views.

I mean, is it impossible to comprehend that perhaps some people are so inflammatory that they have nothing moderate or neutral to say? I think Ann Coulter definitely falls into this category (unless someone can find a quote by her about peace or love or kittens). KyuzoGator 21:44, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

 * As I mentioned above, some people, like Coulter, do indeed make their reputation by being deliberately inflammatory, making it hard to produce a set of notable quotes that doesn't skew to a particular POV. (It might be very hard indeed to find a proper secondary source that would find any calm utterance of convervatism's "bad girl" worth quoting.) But it is possible for editors to fill a Wikiquote article with accurate quotes that nevertheless fail to represent a person's or subject's breadth and depth. For example, it's a very popular pasttime these days to cite George W. Bush's self-evident misrepresentations ("We do not torture", despite well-documented evidence from Americans performing torture) and mock his poor command of his native tongue, but he has also made some stirring speeches about freedom, democracy, and fighting terrorism that are quite quoteworthy.

 * We should strive to find material that is representative of the entire notability of the subject in quotes, not just our preferred view of that person or subject. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:34, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree completely, but that is certainly not being done here. This is totally one sided against Ann.  138.162.128.52 18:04, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

 * It's one thing to argue that she says a lot of inflammatory things. However, when you combine the quotes that are selected, along with putting up quotes of her's alongside pictures(of her and otherwise), you're painting a narrative that might not be accurate. A list of completely abhorrent quotes would make me uneasy but wouldn't push me to the talk page given Ann's public persona.  The quote/picture combos did. I believe wikipedia is better than this, I'd expect it on Conservapedia frankly.
 * First, the narrative you present is extremely flawed, as this is not WIkipedia, though that error can be forgiven, as NO narratives are ever completely thorough, and few without error — and the wise know that most can be extremely innaccurate and presumptive in many ways. With many the attempts at logical cohesion are plainly lacking, so that one encounters the extremely complex compound absurdities of people who insist there should be no point of views in presenting points of views, and that their points of views on such matters are not actually points of views — at least not any such as any "reasonable" person could possibly object to or ridicule or laugh at for any reason. Extremely reasonable people can actually tolerate far more points of view being presented than the most unreasonable can — especially those who begin with the stance that they are certainly among the most reasonable or "fair and balanced" of all — or that their points of view are the acme of properly neutral points of view. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:32, 18 June 2011 (UTC) + tweaks
 * I am not inclined to agree with Ann Coulter in too many of her public stances at all — but one thing I can agree with — some of the most ridiculous people of all are those who fail to appreciate the reality and importance of many forms of humor and satire. I do not particularly like her brand of it — but seeking to either dismiss it entirely or demonize all of it — the way she regularly hypocritcally demonizes liberals, is to fall into a very foul and profound trap that constrains one's own as well as other's freedoms. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 06:48, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree wholeheartedly Kalki, I'm the unsigned earlier only because I'm ignorant. I said wikipedia when I meant wikiquote, my mistake. I do not like Coulter or her views but I also hate seeing misrepresentations of people. The picture/quote combos, along with the inability to read sarcasm and humor make the page out to be very biased against her.  It isn't uncommon tho, there are many "quotes" of conservative talking heads saying "despicable things" on sites like mediamatters.com, where its obvious to me that the comment is in jest.  I don't care for Rush, or Beck or the like, or their humor, but I can recognize it.  Even if jokes are detestable to me, they're still jokes to the person and I'm sure I make many jokes that offend.  Again, my only goal is relative neutrality.  Is that subjective? Shit...
 * ALL perceived and perceivable things involve subjectivity, as well as processes that can be perceived as "objective" in various limited senses — and only those most subject to the delusion that THEY are entirely "objective" in their particularly limited appraisals are most inclined to scorn and despise the subjectivity of others. So it goes... ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:29, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
 * ALL perceived and perceivable things involve subjectivity, as well as processes that can be perceived as "objective" in various limited senses — and only those most subject to the delusion that THEY are entirely "objective" in their particularly limited appraisals are most inclined to scorn and despise the subjectivity of others. So it goes... ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:29, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Addendum to quotes/article
Public consensus: Does anyone have an objection to my adding rebuttals to some of Coulter's claims? Specifically her quote, "Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim." I would like to add cites and reference to the fact that the *VAST* majority of terrorist attacks performed on US soil were conducted by middle-aged white men. I realize this doesn't directly apply to an article regarding Ann, but it would serve to balance the information. What objections/comments do you have to this? Thanks,--Legomancer 04:51, 8 June 2007 (UTC) (wasn't signed in, corrected sig)

 * Wikiquote's purpose is to collect quotes, not argue their accuracy. It should be understood that all quotations are merely the statements of the people cited. Attempting to "refute" quotes tends to turn Wikiquote articles into an ideological war zone (see Abortion), which detracts from the neutral collection of quotes. Two factors might reduce the compulsion to refute people's statements:
 * The lead section and Wikipedia articles provide easy access to information that might suggestion the points of view and beliefs of the subject, which provide a perspective on their quotes. Coulter's fame, as I've said above, comes from her extreme, conservative pronouncements, just as many others across the political spectrum are known for their own extreme positions.
 * Some quotes are manifestly false (e.g., there were no Muslims involved in the Oklahoma City bombing). I tend to think that rising to the bait of extremist opinion (whether conservative, liberal, libertarian, or any other ideological bent) merely helps advertise the quotee.
 * In any case, we should let a person's words speak for themselves, for good and ill (which different folks will see differently). Let's trust our readers to do their own reading and make up their own minds about issues, and let Wikipedians work on the factual matter behind the issues in their project's articles. We should stick to sourcing and verifying just the quotes. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:34, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

 * What a clear, cogent, and persuasive argument. --Legomancer 15:24, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Where are the new quotes about Obama, Hillary, John Edwards
Why sin't anyone updating this page anymore. Just recently she said while Obama is half white, half black Bill Clinton is half white half trash. she's made new comments on Hillary's lesbianism, her weight and her getting bottox. when asked what are hillary's chances in 2008 Coulter said chances for what coming out of the closet. Even on her website there's a bad picture of Hillary. Not to mention the new fight she recently had with John Edwards wife

Quote ordering and sourcing
Organizing quotes by topic frequently leads to ideological conflicts, as I think we're now seeing here. Because of this, sometime during the next week, unless someone beats me to it, I plan to reorganize all the quotes in this article by our standard, NPOV, chronological order, with appropriate context lines that permit terse, neutral explanations, based on the cited sources, under quotes that may need them. I also plan to remove any unsourced quotes that are either unoriginal or inane, or have no readily discovered reliable source. This rigor in sourcing and neutral presentation is important in any article, officially required by Wikimedia for articles about living persons, and absolutely essential for controversial subjects like Coulter. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:31, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

 * I've temporarily given up on this work, since I'm not even keeping up with larger problems at the moment. I hope to return to it somewhere down the road (again, assuming no else else does it first). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:37, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

 * I intend to do organizational cleanup here within a few days, and attempt to better source at least some material — any that remains unsourced after the reorganization I will move to this page. I currently must be leaving, and might not begin on it until sometime tomorrow. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:07, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

 * After many sessions, and having spent most of my computer time in recent days working on further sourcing quotes on this page, properly placing them in chronological order, and extending or adding a few, I am doing final tweaks on this page, and should be finished within an hour or so. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 12:29, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * Published sources should be provided before moving these back into the article

 * In a war on terrorism, I could care less about regulating who sleeps with who.
 * On homosexuality

Radiation is good for you?
With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer. Amazingly, even the Soviet-engineered disaster at Chernobyl in 1986 can be directly blamed for the deaths of no more than the 31 people inside the plant who died in the explosion. Although news reports generally claimed a few thousand people died as a result of Chernobyl -- far fewer than the tens of thousands initially predicted -- that hasn't been confirmed by studies.

Although reporters love to issue sensationalized reports about the danger from Japan's nuclear reactors, remember that, so far, thousands have died only because of Mother Nature. And the survivors may outlive all of us over here in hermetically sealed, radiation-free America. SOURCE: http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=414 Mdupont 13:06, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Spam/unobjective content
This wikiquote pages seems to me to have been the victim of a spam attack. Notes beneath the pictures are unobjective, out of context. Somebody needs to check this whole thing. --80.219.27.101 00:48, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
 * To call the selections of images of Coulter, or of such things as relate to the subject of the quotes which caption them as "Spam", seems to be merely a very poorly informed attempt at trolling. The images that were added during a massive cleanup of an improperly organized page that had been tagged for cleanup since March 2007 have been here since January 2011. I was in no hurry to work on this page, in any way, and nearly four years of patient neglect of the issue had elapsed, while I worked on many other pages, before I got around to cleaning up the mess the page had been in and adding the selected images to go with the quotes. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:11, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

extremely misleading and misquoted.
The first quote is extremely misleading due to the lack of context. It's also a misquote. She was criticizing conservative men's insufficient opposition to pornography. In an essay she wrote way back in college.

full essay here: broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/53n8bk/in-unearthed-college-essay-ann-coulter-rails-against-conservative-men

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Wikiquote talk:Protection policy/Archives/2005

Someone should create this, or make it a link to wikipedia. Right now if you click a protected page link, it takes you here. -Anon

For suitable quotes to the introduction section of this page, see (and expand!) the page about protection. jni 15:18, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Listing deletion error articles
Since articles that couldn't be deleted because of block-compression errors are supposed to be protected, should we list them here? I'm not sure I see the purpose of doing so, because we already have the list in Category:Pending deletions, and whoever eventually deletes those articles should know that they're protected, if it even matters (since they can still be deleted while protected). — Jeff Q (talk) 04:41, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I would not list them here, that would just be duplication of effort. Using the category has the advantage that its contents cannot be delisted by special interest groups because of the protection of all items. This page is intented to enumerate all *classes* of protected pages so a mention must be made of the existence of pending deletion pages. jni 07:41, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I support we don't list those articles in their last days. We can simply say "Article in pending deletion are listed not here, but in Category:Pending deletions." --Aphaia 01:11, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Purpose of this article
I'm a bit unclear about the purpose of this article. Is it a means to keep the state of the protection log, since the log doesn't guarantee accurate state information? Is it supposed to have all protected pages, which would include indefinitely-protected pages like Main Page? Should we have separate sections for archive (e.g., former "Quote of the day" articles), prevention of recreation (e.g., Reirom), protection from vandalism (e.g., sysop user and talk pages), and possibly pending-deletion? Should we include expected durations, since it seems not to be acceptable practice to protect pages indefinitely? I'm afraid I don't know much about wiki protection customs, including tracking. Thank you for any enlightenment you can provide. — Jeff Q (talk) 04:53, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is indeed designed to show the "state representation" corresponding to the data from the protection log (the "time representation"). My intention is to list all infinitely protected pages here, except when there is a large list of them (Pending deletions, QotD, etc.) then just acknowledge their existence. The division to sections is to make maintenance easier, protections against vandalism are handled differently in practice than permanently protected infrastructure pages and so should not be lumped together on this page. Since we don't have any process or policy for protections yet, I suggest to follow Wikipedia conventions as much as possible. You can list expected durations if you want, though when all entries are time-stamped with the signature and ordered by time protected it is easy to see when something has been protected for too long (where "too long" is a judgement call, given no policy). jni 07:55, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I introduce other Wikipedia custons just for information. Japanese Wikipedia has two categories: "parmanent protection", that is, GFDL text and MediaWiki messages. For temporary protection they have a chronological list. Protected articles were listed by the sysop who had protected it and signed with timestamp. Anyone can request for unprotection if some protections seem to be outdated. Protection reason is available besides each link. Another custom is on German Wikipedia. They sort protected pages by namespace without protection reason nor date. It is easy to maintain this list and have an overview on situation. Very interestingly German people has no particular page for request for protection. They use VP, talk or IRC instead. --Aphaia 01:18, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Report
I protected pages linked from the RC top; like VP, VfD, AN and so on. Some of them were targeted by Ass Pus vandal twice, and (sorry I forgot the place) already there is a proposal for protection, I myself don't think it as sysop previledges abuse, but sorry for that I didn't confirm the community will. I know once this vandal or a vandal with a same way attacked a project (Wikinews) four time in a day, so I hope my protection is not based on a haste decision, but any comments and opinions are welcome. --Aphaia 01:34, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Template:Wikipedia
The copy of Template:Wikipedia is different from others, say the one at wikibooks. I was going to update it (at least to see if it would work here), but it's protected so I have no clue. Just thought someone might want to know.


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Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was the Saudi Arabian-born founder of al-Qaeda, a militant Islamic organization that has been involved in terrorist attacks against civilian and military targets around the world, especially against western countries and including the September 11 attacks.

He was also a member of major construction company Saudi Binladin Group run by Binladin family.

Quotes

 * In the Vietnam War, the leaders of the White House claimed at the time that it was a necessary and crucial war, and during it, Donald Rumsfeld and his aides murdered two million villagers. And when Kennedy took over the presidency and deviated from the general line of policy drawn up for the White House and wanted to stop this unjust war, that angered the owners of the major corporations who were benefiting from its continuation. And so Kennedy was killed, and al-Qaida wasn't present at that time, but rather, those corporations were the primary beneficiary from his killing. And the war continued after that for approximately one decade. But after it became clear to you that it was an unjust and unnecessary war, you made one of your greatest mistakes, in that you neither brought to account nor punished those who waged this war, not even the most violent of its murderers, Rumsfeld.
 * As quoted in The Washington Post, Osama bin Laden, video, September 2007.

Declaration of War against the Americans (1996)

 * Osama Bin Laden's Jihad and text of Fatwahs and Declaration of War, Text of the August 1996 Fatwa at PBS

 * It should not be hidden from you that the people of Islam had suffered from aggression, iniquity and injustice imposed on them by the Zionist-Crusaders alliance and their collaborators; to the extent that the Muslims blood became the cheapest and their wealth as loot in the hands of the enemies. Their blood was spilled in Palestine and Iraq. The horrifying pictures of the massacre of Qana, in Lebanon are still fresh in our memory. Massacres in Tajikistan, Burma, Kashmir, Assam, Philippines, Pattani, Ogaden, Somalia, Eritrea, Chechnya, and in Bosnia-Herzegovina took place, massacres that send shivers in the body and shake the conscience. All of this and the world watch and hear, and not only didn't respond to these atrocities, but also with a clear conspiracy between the USA and its' allies and under the cover of the iniquitous United Nations, the dispossessed people were even prevented from obtaining arms to defend themselves. The people of Islam awakened and realized that they are the main target for the aggression of the Zionist-Crusaders alliance. All false claims and propaganda about "Human Rights" were hammered down and exposed by the massacres that took place against the Muslims in every part of the world.

Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders (1998)

 * English translation of a statement in al-Quds al-Arabi (23 February 1998) "Summary/Review of Reports Concerning Threats by Osama Bin Laden to Conduct Terrorist Operations Against the United States and/or her Allies - 23 February 1998 to 16 June 1998"

 * First, for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples. If some people have in the past argued about the fact of the occupation, all the people of the Peninsula have now acknowledged it. The best proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people using the Peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end, but they are helpless. Second, despite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance, and despite the huge number of those killed, which has exceeded 1 million... despite all this, the Americans are once again trying to repeat the horrific massacres, as though they are not content with the protracted blockade imposed after the ferocious war or the fragmentation and devastation. So here they come to annihilate what is left of this people and to humiliate their Muslim neighbors. Third, if the Americans' aims behind these wars are religious and economic, the aim is also to serve the Jews' petty state and divert attention from its occupation of Jerusalem and murder of Muslims there. The best proof of this is their eagerness to destroy Iraq, the strongest neighboring Arab state, and their endeavor to fragment all the states of the region such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Sudan into paper statelets and through their disunion and weakness to guarantee Israel's survival and the continuation of the brutal crusade occupation of the Peninsula.

 * The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies — civilians and military — is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [ Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim.

ABC interview (1998)

 * Interview with ABC reporter John Miller (May 1998)

 * The call to wage war against America was made because America has spear-headed the crusade against the Islamic nation, sending tens of thousands of its troops to the land of the two Holy Mosques over and above its meddling in its affairs and its politics, and its support of the oppressive, corrupt and tyrannical regime that is in control. These are the reasons behind the singling out of America as a target. And not exempt of responsibility are those Western regimes whose presence in the region offers support to the American troops there. We know at least one reason behind the symbolic participation of the Western forces and that is to support the Jewish and Zionist plans for expansion of what is called the Great Israel. Surely, their presence is not out of concern over their interests in the region. … Their presence has no meaning save one and that is to offer support to the Jews in Palestine who are in need of their Christian brothers to achieve full control over the Arab Peninsula which they intend to make an important part of the so called Greater Israel.

 * After our victory in Afghanistan and the defeat of the oppressors who had killed millions of Muslims, the legend about the invincibility of the superpowers vanished. Our boys no longer viewed America as a superpower. So, when they left Afghanistan, they went to Somalia and prepared themselves carefully for a long war. They had thought that the Americans were like the Russians, so they trained and prepared. They were stunned when they discovered how low was the morale of the American soldier. America had entered with 30,000 soldiers in addition to thousands of soldiers from different countries in the world. … As I said, our boys were shocked by the low morale of the American soldier and they realized that the American soldier was just a paper tiger.

 * Any effort directed against America and the Jews yields positive and direct results, Allah willing. It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities.

 * We believe that this administration represents Israel inside America. Take the sensitive ministries such as the Ministry of Exterior and the Ministry of Defense and the CIA, you will find that the Jews have the upper hand in them. They make use of America to further their plans for the world, especially the Islamic world. American presence in the Gulf provides support to the Jews and protects their rear. And while millions of Americans are homeless and destitute and live in abject poverty, their government is busy occupying our land and building new settlements and helping Israel build new settlements in the point of departure for our Prophet's midnight journey to the seven heavens. America throws her own sons in the land of the two Holy Mosques for the sake of protecting Jewish interests.

 * I am one of the servants of Allah. We do our duty of fighting for the sake of the religion of Allah. It is also our duty to send a call to all the people of the world to enjoy this great light and to embrace Islam and experience the happiness in Islam. Our primary mission is nothing but the furthering of this religion. ... Let not the West be taken in by those who say that Muslims choose nothing but slaughtering. Their brothers in East Europe, in Turkey and in Albania have been guided by Allah to submit to Islam and to experience the bliss of Islam. Unlike those, the European and the American people and some of the Arabs are under the influence of Jewish media.

Time magazine interview (23 December 1998)

 * Time magazine interview (23 December 1998)

 * The International Islamic Front for Jihad against the U.S. and Israel has, by the grace of God, issued a crystal-clear fatwah calling on the Islamic nation to carry on jihad aimed at liberating holy sites. The nation of Muhammad has responded to this appeal. If the instigation for jihad against the Jews and the Americans in order to liberate al-Aksa Mosque and the Holy Ka'aba is considered a crime, then let history be a witness that I am a criminal. Our job is to instigate and, by the grace of God, we did that, and certain people responded to this instigation.
 * In response to the interviewer stating: 'Are you responsible for the bomb attacks on the two American embassies in Africa?'

 * What I know is that those who risked their lives to earn the pleasure of God are real men. They managed to rid the Islamic nation of disgrace. We hold them in the highest esteem.
 * In response to the interviewer stating: 'Do you know the men who have been arrested for these attacks?'

 * Wadih el-Hage was one of our brothers whom God was kind enough to steer to the path of relief work for Afghan refugees. I still remember him, though I have not seen him or heard from him for many years. He has nothing to do with the U.S. allegations. As for Mohamed Rashed al-'Owhali, we were informed that he is a Saudi from the province of Najd. The fact of the matter is that America, and in particular the CIA, wanted to cover up its failure in the aftermath of the events that took place in Riyadh, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Capetown, Kampala--and other places, God willing, in the future--by arresting any person who had participated in the Islamic jihad in Afghanistan. We pray to God to end the plight, and we are confident they will be exonerated.
 * In response to the interviewer stating: 'But all those arrested are said to have been associated with you.'

 * There is no doubt that the treacherous attack has confirmed that Britain and America are acting on behalf of Israel and the Jews, paving the way for the Jews to divide the Muslim world once again, enslave it and loot the rest of its wealth. A great part of the force that carried out the attack came from certain gulf countries that have lost their sovereignty. Now infidels walk everywhere on the land where Muhammad was born and where the Koran was revealed to him. The situation is serious. The rulers have become powerless. Muslims should carry out their obligations, since the rulers of the region have accepted the invasion of their countries. These countries belong to Islam and not the rulers.
 * In response to the interviewer stating: 'How do you react to the December attack on Iraq by U.S. and British forces?'

 * Any thief or criminal or robber who enters another country in order to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception. Thousands of millions of Muslims are angry. The Americans should expect reactions from the Muslim world that are proportionate to the injustice they inflict.
 * In response to the interviewer stating: 'What can the U.S. expect from you now?'

 * Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God for enabling me to do so. And if I seek to acquire these weapons, I am carrying out a duty. It would be a sin for Muslims not to try to possess the weapons that would prevent the infidels from inflicting harm on Muslims.
 * In response to the interviewer stating: 'The U.S. says you are trying to acquire chemical and nuclear weapons.'

 * The U.S. knows that I have attacked it, by the grace of God, for more than 10 years now. The U.S. alleges that I am fully responsible for the killing of its soldiers in Somalia. God knows that we have been pleased at the killing of American soldiers. This was achieved by the grace of God and the efforts of the mujahedin from among the Somali brothers and other Arab mujahedin who had been in Afghanistan before that. America has been trying ever since to tighten its economic blockade against us and to arrest me. It has failed. This blockade does not hurt us much. We expect to be rewarded by God.
 * In response to the interviewer stating: 'The U.S. is trying to stop the flow of funds to your organization. Has it been able to do so?'

 * Winds of change have blown in order to lift the injustice to which the world is subjected by America and its supporters and the Jews who are collaborating with them. Look at what is happening these days in Indonesia, where Suharto, a despot who ruled for 30 years, was overthrown. The time will come, sooner rather than later, when criminal despots who betrayed God and his Prophet, and betrayed their trust and their nation, will face the same fate.
 * In response to the interviewer stating: 'Is your Islamic message having an impact?'

 * We should fully understand our religion. Fighting is a part of our religion and our Shari'a. Those who love God and his Prophet and this religion cannot deny that. Whoever denies even a minor tenet of our religion commits the gravest sin in Islam. Those who sympathize with the infidels-such as the PLO in Palestine or the so-called Palestinian Authority--have been trying for tens of years to get back some of their rights. They laid down arms and abandoned what is called violence and tried peaceful bargaining. What did the Jews give them? They did not give them even 1% of their rights.
 * In response to the interviewer stating: 'But there are many Muslims who do not agree with your kind of violence.'

 * Hostility toward America is a religious duty, and we hope to be rewarded for it by God. To call us Enemy No. 1 or 2 does not hurt us. Osama bin Laden is confident that the Islamic nation will carry out its duty. I am confident that Muslims will be able to end the legend of the so-called superpower that is America.
 * In response to the interviewer stating: 'America, the world's only superpower, has called you Public Enemy Number One. Are you worried?'

2000s

 * As for those who condemned these operations looked at the event [ 9/11] in isolation and failed to connect them to past events and did not look at the causes that lead to this result. So their point of view is narrow.
 * Al - Jazeera Broadcast Tape - On 9/11 and the American reaction (The date of this tape is not provided, though it seems to be 2002 or 2003, but could be as early as October 2001.)

2001

 * In today's wars, there are no morals. We believe the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets.
 * As quoted in "The Most Wanted Man in the World" (16 September 2001), Time magazine profile.

 * The pieces of the bodies of infidels were flying like dust particles. If you would have seen it with your own eyes, you would have been very pleased, and your heart would have been filled with joy.
 * As quoted in "The Most Wanted Man in the World" (16 September 2001), Time magazine profile.

 * I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
 * Statement in al-Quds al-Arabi, as quoted in "Bin Laden: I Didn't Do It" CBS News (12 September 2001); also at Positive Atheism's "Big List of Scary Quotes"

 * I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself. That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks. The American system is totally in control of the Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States.
 * 22 September 2001, statement of denial published by the BBC, per 2008 book The 9/11 Mystery Plane

 * Neither I had any knowledge of these attacks nor I consider the killing of innocent women, children, and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children, and other people. Such a practice is forbidden ever in the course of a battle. … It is the United States, which is perpetrating every maltreatment on women, children and common people of other faiths, particularly the followers of Islam.
 * Interview with Karachi Ummat (28 September 2001).

I have already said that we are against the American system, not against its people, whereas in these attacks, the common American people have been killed.
 * Interview with Karachi Ummat (28 September 2001).

 * Every Muslim must rise to defend his religion. The wind of faith is blowing.
 * Video statement broadcast on the Arabic-language Al-Jazeera TV station. (7 October 2001).

 * [H]istory should be a witness that we are terrorists. Yes, we kill their innocents The Twin Towers were legitimate targets, they were supporting US economic power. These events were great by all measurement. What was destroyed were not only the towers, but the towers of morale in that country. blessed by Allah to destroy America's economic and military landmarks If avenging the killing of our people is terrorism then history should be a witness that we are terrorists. Yes, we kill their innocents and this is legal religiously and logically. The towers were supposed to be filled with supporters of the economical powers of the United States who are abusing the world. Those who talk about civilians should change their stand and reconsider their position. We are treating them like they treated us. There are two types of terror, good and bad. What we are practising is good terror. We will not stop killing them and whoever supports them. Bush and Blair don't understand anything but the power of force. Every time they kill us, we kill them, so the balance of terror can be achieved. It is the duty of every Muslim to fight. Killing Jews is top priority. If America used chemical or nuclear weapons against us, then we may retort with chemical and nuclear weapons. We have the weapons as deterrent.
 * 11 November 2001

2002

 * We had notification since the previous Thursday that the event would take place that day. We had finished our work that day and had the radio on. It was 5:30 PM our time. I was sitting with Dr. Ahmad Abu al-Khair. Immediately, we heard the news that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.

 * I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.
 * Al-Jazeera interview, (21 October 2001), as reported in "Bin Laden's sole post-September 11 TV interview aired" CNN (31 January 2002).

 * When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.
 * Video interview, quoted in Analyzing Leaders, Presidents and Terrorists by Diane E. Holloway page 325, with NPR transcript (9 November 2001)

 * We say our terror against America is blessed terror in order to put an end to suppression, in order for the United States to stop its support to Israel.
 * Video statement broadcast on the Arabic-language Al-Jazeera TV station. (26 December 2001).

 * If inciting people to do that is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be witness that we are terrorists.
 * On the September 11, 2001 attacks, in CNN broadcast of an interview that Al-Jazeera conducted in October 2001 (31 January 2002).

 * These Jews are masters of usury and leaders in treachery. They will leave you nothing, either in this world or the next.
 * As quoted in Messages to the World (2005), by Bruce Lawrence, p. 190. Also from 53-minute audiotape that "was circulated on various websites" dated February 14, 2003. "Among a Band of Knights".

 * Just like you kill us, we will kill you.
 * Audiotape aired on Al-Jazeera (12 November 2002).

Letter to the American people (2002)

 * "Letter to the American people", The Observer (24 November 2002), via the Internet Archive. On 15 November 2023, the website took down the original article.

 * The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam. The religion of the Unification of God; of freedom from associating partners with Him, and rejection of this; of complete love of Him, the Exalted; of complete submission to His Laws; and of the discarding of all the opinions, orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent down to His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Islam is the religion of all the prophets, and makes no distinction between them - peace be upon them all. It is to this religion that we call you; the seal of all the previous religions. It is the religion of Unification of God, sincerity, the best of manners, righteousness, mercy, honour, purity, and piety. It is the religion of showing kindness to others, establishing justice between them, granting them their rights, and defending the oppressed and the persecuted. It is the religion of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the hand, tongue and heart. It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme. And it is the religion of unity and agreement on the obedience to Allah, and total equality between all people, without regarding their colour, sex, or language. It is the religion whose book - the Quran - will remained preserved and unchanged, after the other Divine books and messages have been changed. The Quran is the miracle until the Day of Judgment. Allah has challenged anyone to bring a book like the Quran or even ten verses like it.
 * You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator. You flee from the embarrassing question posed to you: How is it possible for Allah the Almighty to create His creation, grant them power over all the creatures and land, grant them all the amenities of life, and then deny them that which they are most in need of: knowledge of the laws which govern their lives?
 * Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.
 * We also advise you to pack your luggage and get out of our lands. We desire for your goodness, guidance, and righteousness, so do not force us to send you back as cargo in coffins.
 * Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support of the corrupt leaders in our countries. Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.
 * We also call you to deal with us and interact with us on the basis of mutual interests and benefits, rather than the policies of sub dual, theft and occupation, and not to continue your policy of supporting the Jews because this will result in more disasters for you.
 * If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the words: 'Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of believing people. And remove the anger of their [Muslims'] hearts'.

2003

 * We will continue to fight you as long as we have weapons in our hands.
 * Audiotape aired on Al-Jazeera (18 October 2003).

 * There is no dialogue except with weapons.
 * Audiotape aired on Al-Jazeera (18 October 2003).

2004

 * This war in Iraq makes millions of dollars for big corporations, either weapons manufacturers or those working in the reconstruction, such as Halliburton and its sister companies. . . It is crystal clear who benefits from igniting the fire of this war and this bloodshed: They are the merchants of war, the bloodsuckers who run the policy of the world from behind the scenes. President Bush and his ilk, the media giants, and the U.N. . . all are a fatal danger to the world, and the Zionist lobby is their most dangerous member. God willing, we will persist in fighting them. ..
 * Reported in Strategic Culture and Violent Non-state Actors: Weapons of Mass Destruction and Asymmetrical Operations Concepts and Cases by James M. Smith, Jerry Mark Long, Thomas H. Johnson, p. 33, USAF Institute for National Security Studies, 2008

 * Every Muslim, from the moment they realize the distinction in their hearts, hates Americans, hates Jews and hates Christians. For as long as I can remember, I have felt tormented and at war, and have felt hatred and animosity for Americans.
 * As quoted in Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden (2005) by Bruce Lawrence ISBN 1844670457

I couldn't forget those moving scenes, blood and severed limbs, women and children sprawled everywhere. Houses destroyed along with their occupants and high rises demolished over their residents, rockets raining down on our home without mercy.  The situation was like a crocodile meeting a helpless child, powerless except for his screams. Does the crocodile understand a conversation that doesn't include a weapon? And the whole world saw and heard but it didn't respond.  In those difficult moments many hard-to-describe ideas bubbled in my soul, but in the end they produced an intense feeling of rejection of tyranny, and gave birth to a strong resolve to punish the oppressors. And as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children. And that day, it was confirmed to me that oppression and the intentional killing of innocent women and children is a deliberate American policy. Destruction is freedom and democracy, while resistance is terrorism and intolerance. This means the oppressing and embargoing to death of millions as Bush Sr did in Iraq in the greatest mass slaughter of children mankind has ever known, and it means the throwing of millions of pounds of bombs and explosives at millions of children - also in Iraq - as Bush Jr did, in order to remove an old agent and replace him with a new puppet to assist in the pilfering of Iraq's oil and other outrages. So with these images and their like as their background, the events of September 11th came as a reply to those great wrongs, should a man be blamed for defending his sanctuary?
 * The events that affected my soul in a direct way started in 1982 when America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the American Sixth Fleet helped them in that. This bombardment began and many were killed and injured and others were terrorised and displaced.
 * "Full transcript of bin Ladin's speech", Aljazeera, (1 Nov 2004)

At a time when some of our compatriots were dazzled by America and hoping that these visits would have an effect on our countries, all of a sudden he was affected by those monarchies and military regimes, and became envious of their remaining decades in their positions, to embezzle the public wealth of the nation without supervision or accounting. So he took dictatorship and suppression of freedoms to his son and they named it the Patriot Act, under the pretence of fighting terrorism. In addition, Bush sanctioned the installing of sons as state governors, and didn't forget to import expertise in election fraud from the region's presidents to Florida to be made use of in moments of difficulty.
 * As for it's results, they have been, by the grace of Allah, positive and enormous, and have, by all standards, exceeded all expectations. This is due to many factors, chief among them, that we have found it difficult to deal with the Bush administration in light of the resemblance it bears to the regimes in our countries, half of which are ruled by the military and the other half which are ruled by the sons of kings and presidents. Our experience with them is lengthy, and both types are replete with those who are characterised by pride, arrogance, greed and misappropriation of wealth. This resemblance began after the visits of Bush Sr to the region.
 * "Full transcript of bin Ladin's speech", Aljazeera, (1 Nov 2004)

2004 Video Broadcast on Al-Jazeera October 29
Al-Jazeera transcript
 * Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands. Each and every state that does not tamper with our security will have automatically assured its own security.
 * Contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. If so, then let him explain to us why we don't strike for example - Sweden?
 * No, we fight because we are free men who don't sleep under oppression. We want to restore freedom to our nation, just as you lay waste to our nation. So shall we lay waste to yours.
 * And as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children.
 * And it's no secret to you that the thinkers and perceptive ones from among the Americans warned Bush before the war and told him: "All that you want for securing America and removing the weapons of mass destruction - assuming they exist - is available to you, and the nations of the world are with you in the inspections, and it is in the interest of America that it not be thrust into an unjustified war with an unknown outcome."
 * All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies. All Praise is due to Allah. So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.

2006

 * No one except a dumb thief plays with the security of others and then makes himself believe he will be secure. Whereas thinking people, when disaster strikes, make it their priority to look for its causes, in order to prevent it happening again.
 * I am the one in charge of the 19 brothers … I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers … with the raids.
 * On the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, in an audiotape broadcast on Al Jazeera (23 May 2006).

2007

 * People of America: the world is following your news in regards to your invasion of Iraq, for people have recently come to know that, after several years of tragedies of this war, the vast majority of you want it stopped. Thus, you elected the Democratic Party for this purpose, but the Democrats haven't made a move worth mentioning.
 * "New OBL Tape: Iraq, Democratic Control" ABC News (7 September 2007).

Quotes about bin Laden

 * Alphabetized by author

 * Last year, when the need to form a fact-finding team to undertake a thorough investigation concerning the hidden elements involved in September 11 incident was brought up; an idea also endorsed by all independent governments and nations as well as by the majority in the United States, my country and myself came under pressure and threat by the government of the United States. Instead of assigning a fact-finding team, they killed the main perpetrator and threw his body into the sea. Would it not have been reasonable to bring to justice and openly bring to trial the main perpetrator of the incident in order to identify the elements behind the safe space provided for the invading aircraft to attack the twin world trade towers? Why should it not have been allowed to bring him to trial to help recognize those who launched terrorist groups and brought wars and other miseries into the region? Is there any classified information that must be kept secret?
 * Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Speech to the United Nations General Assembly (22 September 2011), New York City, New York.

 * Well, when it was a local problem, the American media did not really care much about it. But until September 11, you saw how this faith of hate, I call it, did to all of us, to New Yorkers and to the rest of the world, honestly. [...] Prince Nayif condemned bin Laden, and other princes... Prince Turki condemned bin Laden. They did not condemn that message. They condemned bin Laden. ... Bin Laden learned this in Saudi Arabia. He didn't learn it in the moon. That message that Bin Laden received, it still is taught in Saudi Arabia. And if bin Laden dies, and this policy or curriculum stays, we will have other bin Ladens.
 * Ahmed Ali, Wahhabism: Analysis. PBS.

 * If a blasphemer [ Salman Rushdie] can be given the title "Sir" by the West despite the fact he has hurt the feelings of Muslims, then a mujahid [Osama bin Laden] who has been fighting for Islam against the Russians, Americans and British must be given the lofty title of Islam, Saifullah.
 * Tahir Ashrafi, Pakistan Ulema Council chairman, quoted in Bin Laden made a Sword of Islam, Metro.co.uk (2007-06-21)

 * I would like to emphasize here, on Al-Arabiya TV, that I place Sheik Osama on the same level as my father, and I love him perhaps even more than my father.
 * Nasser Al-Bahri, AKA "Abu Jandal," former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, on Al-Arabiya TV (4 May 2007) as quoted in "Former Osama bin Laden Bodyguard in Al-Arabiya TV Interview : I Love Him More Than I Love My Own Father" (6 June 2007).

 * At a time when the name Osama bin Laden had appeared almost nowhere in the Western press, Bennett named the man to beware of. “Among private donors to the new generation [of fighters], Usama Bin Ladin is particularly famous for his religious zeal and financial largesse,” she wrote.
 * Gina Bennett, “The Wandering Mujahidin: Armed and Dangerous”; as quoted by Liza Mundy, “The Women Who Saw 9/11 Coming”, The Atlantic, (November 18, 2023); adapted from The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA.

 * We know those responsible. In Afghanistan are scores of training camps for the export of terror. Chief amongst the sponsors and organisers is Usama Bin Laden. He is supported, shielded and given succour by the Taliban regime. Two days before the 11 September attacks, Masood, the leader of the opposition Northern Alliance, was assassinated by two suicide bombers. Both were linked to Bin Laden. Some may call that coincidence. I call it payment - payment in the currency these people deal in: blood. Be in no doubt: Bin Laden and his people organised this atrocity. The Taliban aid and abet him. He will not desist from further acts of terror. They will not stop helping him.
 * Tony Blair, Address to the 2001 Labour Party Conference, (7 October 2001)

 * Not only did Islamabad have advance knowledge of the impending strikes, but at the very least it warned the Taliban leadership—whom Islamabad created and is sponsoring—so that they could ensure that bin Laden, Zawahiri, and their lieutenants were not harmed in the strike. According to Arab sources, the ISI even sent a senior official to Afghanistan to personally warn bin Laden about the impending U.S. strike.
 * Bodansky, Yossef - Bin Laden_ the man who declared war on America (2011)

 * I will screw him in the ass.
 * George W. Bush, as quoted in Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait (2007), by Uri Dan.

 * Fighting the inflated menace of Osama bin Laden has become big business, generating hundreds of billions of dollars for government agencies and contractors in what one friend of mine in the Washington policy-making stratosphere calls "the counterterrorist-industrial complex."
 * Christopher Dickey, Terrorist Triage: Why are the presidential candidates—and so many counterterrorism experts—afraid to say that the Al Qaeda threat is overrated?, Newsweek

 * As a human being, bin Laden may have deserved compassion and even forgiveness, the Dalai Lama said in answer to a question about the assassination of the al-Qaeda leader. But, he said, "Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. … If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures."
 * Mitchell Landsberg quoting Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, in "Dalai Lama suggests Osama bin Laden's death was justified" in The Los Angeles Times (4 May 2011).

 * Remembering the evils of the past helps to sustain the faithful. Yes, the present may look dark, but that, too, is part of the story before the triumph of the faithful, and paradise comes on earth or in heaven. A few weeks after September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden released a tape in which he exulted about the destruction of the World Trade Center towers: “Our Islamic nation has been tasting the same for more than eighty years, of humiliation and disgrace, its sons killed and their blood spilled, its sanctities desecrated.” Few people in the West knew that, for him, Muslim degradation had started in the modern age with the abolition of the caliphate. In 1924, in a move that caused little comment in the West, Atatürk, the founder of a new and secular Turkey, had abolished that last office held by the deposed Ottoman sultans. As caliphs they had claimed spiritual leadership of the world’s Muslims. The last one, a gentle poet, had gone quietly into exile. For many Muslims, from India to the Middle East, the abolition was a blow to their dream of a united Muslim world governed according to God’s laws. For Bin Laden and those who thought like him, disunity among Muslims had allowed Western powers to push the Middle East around; to take its oil and, with the establishment of Israel, its land; to corrupt its leaders; and to lead ordinary Muslims astray. The Saudi rulers had committed the ultimate sin of allowing the United States to bring its troops on to the holy land where Muslims had their most sacred sites. Bin Laden's history includes much more than the past eighty years. The Crusades, the defeat of the Moors in Spain, Western imperialism in the nineteenth century, and the evils of the twentieth all add up to a dark tale of Muslim humiliation and suffering. Such history keeps followers angry and motivated and attracts new recruits.
 * Margaret MacMillan, The Uses and Abuses of History (2008), pp. 67-68

 * Though it took a decade to find bin Laden, there is one consolation for his long evasion of justice: He lived long enough to witness what some are calling the Arab Spring, the complete repudiation of his violent ideology.
 * John McCain, in "Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture" in The Washington Post (11 May 2011).

 * In America, we have a figure from history from 1897 named Teddy Roosevelt. He was a wealthy man, who grew up in a privileged situation and who fought on the front lines. He put together his own men–hand chose them–and went to battle. You are like the Middle East version of Teddy Roosevelt.
 * John Miller, as quoted in interview with John Miller (May 1998).

Gradually, the truth was working its way to the agency's seventh floor and to CIA Director George Tenet, who tried to convey to the White House the extent of the threat. A series of plans to capture bin Laden were formed but were rejected by top officials, who worried about how precise the targeting was and the danger of putting civilians at risk.
 * By mid-1998, [CIA analyst Cindy] Storer had long been warning colleagues that bin Laden's organization had the ability to stage simultaneous attacks. On Friday, August 7, she turned out to be right: Major explosions occurred at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing hundreds and injuring thousands. When the attacks were conclusively linked to al-Qaeda, this was, as one operations officer later wrote, a "profound" revelation, in that it showed that bin Laden could conduct "large-scale bombings of U.S. targets."
 * Liza Mundy, “The Women Who Saw 9/11 Coming”, The Atlantic, (November 18, 2023); adapted from The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA.

 * As 2000 gave way to 2001, Storer found herself reading terrorist communications that used words like "Olympic-sized" and "Armageddon." In October 2000, suicide bombers in Yemen blew a hole in the w:USS Cole:USS Cole, killing 17 American sailors, and analysts were shocked when the outgoing Clinton administration did not retaliate. In 2001, Tenet began begging the incoming administration of George W. Bush to let the CIA mount an operation that allowed for killing bin Laden rather than capturing him. Analysts expected that another major attack could happen in the summer, and Storer felt responsibility and dread: This is going to happen on your watch.
 * Liza Mundy, “The Women Who Saw 9/11 Coming”, The Atlantic, (November 18, 2023); adapted from The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA.

 * Osama bin Laden understands that he cannot defeat the U.S. in a conventional war. What he and his allies can do is inflict enough pain to provoke a reaction of the sort we've seen in Iraq–a botched and ill-advised U.S. military incursion into a Muslim country, which in turn spurs on insurgencies based on religious sentiment and nationalist pride, which in turn necessitates a lengthy and difficult U.S. occupation. All of this fans anti-American sentiment among Muslims, and increases the pool of potential terrorist recruits. That’s the plan for winning a war from a cave, and so far, we are playing to script. To change that script, we'll need to make sure that any exercise of American military power helps rather than hinders our broader goals: to incapacitate the destructive potential of terrorist networks and win this global battle of ideas.
 * Barack Obama, as quoted in Audacity of Hope (2006), p. 307.

 * Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.
 * Barack H. Obama II, in remarks on the death of bin Laden - White House transcript and video (1 May 2011).

 * Last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan. And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.
 * Barack H. Obama II, in remarks on the death of bin Laden (2 May 2011).

 * In May 2011 the United States finally got bin Laden. I felt a great sense of relief and pride as well as gratitude to President Obama for the bold decision to launch the raid that had led to the killing. And I felt vindication for putting into place many of the tools that had led to that day. I always believed that we would get bin Laden.
 * Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (2011), p. 120

 * We should give him credit for only one thing: unlike other vile tyrants, he did not live in golden palaces, but avoided them.
 * Gabriele Romagnoli, Osama: Quando Muore un Fantasma, Vanity Fair (11 May 2011).
 * Osama Bin Laden and George Bush were both terrorists. They were both building international networks that perpetrate terror and devastate people’s lives. Bush with the Pentagon, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank. Bin Laden with Al-Qaeda. The difference is that nobody elected Bin Laden... The United States supported Saddam Hussein and made sure that he ruled with an iron fist for all those years. Then they used the sanctions to break the back of civil society. Then they made Iraq disarm. Then they attacked Iraq. And now they’ve taken over all its assets.
 * Arundhati Roy in The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy (2008)

 * Few people know that the first INTERPOL Notice for Osama bin Laden was issued in 1998 at the request of Libya, then under Muammar Ghaddafi’s rule. Less than five months later, some 200 people would lose their lives at the hands of al Qaeda in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and in Nairobi, Kenya.
 * Jurgen Stock, “Opinion editorial by Secretary General Jürgen Stock”, INTERPOL, (9 May 2023)

 * On the existential plain, Bin Laden was marginalized, out of play, but inside the chrysalis of myth that he had spun about himself he was becoming a representative of all persecuted and humiliated Muslims. His life and the symbols in which he cloaked himself powerfully embodied the pervasive sense of dispossession that characterized the modern Muslim world. In his own miserable exile, he absorbed the misery of his fellow believers, his loss entitled him to speak for theirs, his vengeance would sanctify their suffering.
 * Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower.

 * In what people irritatingly call "iconic" terms, Bin Laden certainly had no rival. The strange, scrofulous quasi-nobility and bogus spirituality of his appearance was appallingly telegenic, and it will be highly interesting to see whether this charisma survives the alternative definition of revolution that has lately transfigured the Muslim world. The most tenaciously lasting impression of all, however, is that of his sheer irrationality. What had the man thought he was doing? Ten years ago, did he expect, let alone desire, to be in a walled compound in dear little Abbottabad? ... What happened in Abbottobad … has been the second death of Osama bin Laden. His physical one. Meanwhile, his symbolic, political and ideological [death] had already occurred on the squares of Cairo, Tunis, Damascus and Bengasi, where al-Qaeda had been ignored. Nobody exhalted it. Nobody mentioned it. The "Arab spring" has blossomed and exploded for want of democracy and freedom. It is not provoked by Islamic fanaticism, and even less inspired by the idea of a caliphate... launched by bin Laden. It is not a choice. It is outdated, even if its sporadic followers are still able to strike. Before the Americans, bin Laden had been symbolically killed by the people on Tahrir square and Burghiba avenue.
 * Bernardo Valli, in "Il giovane viziato con lo sguardo timido diventato il 'principe del terrore': I soldi del padre e la svolta nella lotta contro l'Urss in Afghanistan" in La Republica (3 May 2011).

 * The Sheikh has departed, may God have mercy on him, to his God as a martyr and we must continue on his path of jihad to expel the invaders from the land of Muslims and to purify it from injustice. Today, and thanks to God, America is not facing an individual or a group, but a rebelling nation, which has awoken from its sleep in a jihadist renaissance.
 * Ayman al-Zawahiri,

In fiction

 * Huey squeals to the Feds’ terrorism hotline -
 * Huey: Why do you keep hanging up on me? I’m telling you the truth! The CIA trained Osama Bin Laden in using terrorism against the soviets during the Reagan-Bush administration they gave the Afghanistan rebels countless amounts of covert funding!
 * FBI: Don’t you have better things to be doing?
 * Huey: Better than fighting terrorism? Heck no! We’re at war!!
 * Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, (10/5/2001).

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