"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt, it's going to be decisive." - President Bush, in a meeting with Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer, September 13, 2001

 

"This is not a battle between the U.S. and terrorism but between the free and democratic world against terrorism." - Prime Minister Tony Blair, UK

 

"It's God's responsibility to forgive Bin Laden ... It's our responsibility to arrange the meeting!" -- United States Marines

 

"Make no mistake, the U.S. will hunt down and punish those responsible." - President George W. Bush

 

"We'll be patient, we'll be focused, and we will be steadfast in our determination. This battle will take time and resolve but make no mistake about it, we will win." - President George W. Bush

 

"I don't care, dead or alive — either way, it doesn't matter to me," Bush said. "I don't know whether we're going to get him tomorrow or a month from now or a year from now. I don't really know. But we're going to get him."

 

In an interview with ABCNEWS' Sam Donaldson, Secretary of State Colin Powell said: "We want him brought to justice. If justice happens to be a 500-pound bomb that lands on him because he wouldn't surrender, well then, justice has been served."

 

When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire-building by George Bush.

He answered by saying that ...“Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.”

It became very quiet in the room.