Bombing Quotations

I was born on the first day of January 1941 in the front bedroom of my grandparents' house in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire where my mother had come to escape the bombing in London.

I think, as a nation, we didn't learn our lessons from the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. We should have been more careful in a whole host of areas.

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center.

What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.

I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty quickly, and we're never going to get over 9/11.

The only moral question with suicide bombing is who the target is. And in that sense, the suicide bomber is no different from the stealth bomber or the cruise missile. If it is targeted at civilian people, then it is morally wrong, whether done by Bush, Blair, or a suicide bomber.

It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing.

What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

While the West tries to turn its civilization into cultural variety hour, Islam tries to turn Muslim lands into a cultural monolith. The same West that justifies the rap culture thinks that every Muslim terrorist bombing is an expression of economic angst or social alienation.

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 - presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 - would have been stopped.

If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

We're in no rush to bomb Iran. The fact that we have bombing plans on the shelf for dealing with Iran is not new because we've been generating those plans for a quarter-century. That's what planners do.

There is no question that the effectiveness of the bombing is vastly improved as you have people on the ground in communication with the aircraft overhead, ... We now have some larger number of teams of people on the ground ... and the effectiveness of bombing is improving every day.

There is a safety factor here, ... This is a bombing indictment, and we just don't need people in there, trampling in the woods. Any place that we're looking at has potential evidence.

We tried doing a number of things to slow them down in the final minute. They were just bombing shots. Thank God we had a big lead.

We have received six wounded people from the bombing and they say that three civilians ... had died,

We have raised a lot of money. But we're still helping people with disaster relief efforts for the Oklahoma City bombing -- and that was six years ago.

We cannot accept what we see on our television every day of the bombing of innocent civilians. There are hundreds now every day.

Let's just imagine that we adopt it and today we issued that statement -- then what happens after two weeks? In such a pace we'll start bombing in June.

Let the people of Yugoslavia be quite clear, ... The bombing can end at any time. It's in Milosevic's hands, and he knows our conditions, which are reasonable and sensible, and nothing less than full compliance will do.

So for instance a few weeks before the Madrid bombing they put out a strategy explaining why they thought that Spain was a weak link in the coalition in Iraq, why it was crucial to get America out of Iraq ... for the sake of future radical Islamist expansion.

So in that sense it's not exactly the same as the bombing of the nightclubs in Bali on the October evening back in 2002.

My battle station was right above the turret. We had to keep bombing day and night. When the ship was in the yard, there were all kinds of noises grinding, chipping, banging, pounding, welding.

On one level, bombing ISIS is easy. The U.S. knows where the group operates. There's no need for a ten-year hunt like the one for Osama bin Laden. The terror group has two capital cities: Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. Al-Qaeda never had such an obvious home address.

One of the sad things is that families may not get the definitive answer some think they're going to get -- who instigated this particular bombing, ... This is not about who ordered the bombing of Pan Am 103, it's only about whether these two guys did it.

If there were to be clear and unambiguous evidence that (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic was meeting the conditions, and that he seemed to be doing so, then we would consider a bombing pause to allow an orderly withdrawal of his forces,

If this fails because both parties say no, there will not be bombing of Serbia and we will try to figure out ways of trying to deal with both sides,

If this should turn out to be about John Doe No. 2, I think it is far from clear that the Oklahoma City bombing case has reached a conclusion in federal court.

I have four children and I am absolutely terrified that my kids are going to run out in the street and some speeding car is going to come bombing down or up the hill and not see my kids.

I believe we could have removed Saddam Hussein from power without bombing the children of Baghdad.

Given the fact that the Marriott hotel bombing happened two days ago, all of Indonesia is looking to see what type of signal is being sent from here,

What you do with a bombing campaign is bring a whole country rallying around its radical leaders.

He's a fantastic player. You allow him to bomb us from where he was bombing them, he should have had four or five.

Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.

Joel Silver has confirmed that a controversial London bombing scene from next year's

I think the fact that we had this awful bombing ... and yet the market seems to be moving on, that it's starting to become sort of priced into the marketplace. We may get investors to get back in off the sidelines at some juncture as we start to get earnings reports for the quarter.

It is more than apparent that the government somehow blames and refuses to properly endorse Mr. Fortier due to the government's lack of success across the board in the second bombing trial against Terry Nichols.

Larry Mackey is an experienced trial lawyer and an accomplished leader whose skills were instrumental to preparing and arguing the government's case in the first Oklahoma City bombing trial, ... The trial team is in very good hands.

Our bombs don't work. But without these agents' hard work, we could very easily have ended up working a bombing fatality.

Our position on this question is clear; NATO must immediately halt the bombing of Yugoslavia as a necessary precondition for solving the Kosovo crisis. The bombing should stop before the Security Council discusses this issue.

Passing on to younger generations the memories and the will of those who suffered the bombing is the most important step for humankind to survive in the 21st century,

The 1993 Trade Center bombing was obviously frightening. It could have been much worse than it was.

When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up.

We've got our timing spectacularly wrong on one or two things. We did a cover story called 'The End of War', the week they started bombing Kosovo. In our last issue we had an essay on the end of English cricket.

We were sitting there bombing away and they weren't going in. It was one of those nights where the shots we usually make just weren't falling.

The president has deep respect for the pope, and he also has great compassion and sympathy for the 168 victims of the Oklahoma City bombing and their families.

Today's bombing appears to be an effort to dissuade other members of the international community from assisting in the reconstruction of Iraq, ... We cannot allow terrorists to thwart efforts to internationalize the rebuilding process and the U.S. must redouble its efforts to recruit other countries to participate.

We believed or hoped that the tactic of a suicide bombing would not be exported. This is a new threat for us.

We continued to be disturbed and dismayed at indications of the external linkages of terrorist groups with the October 29 bombing

We would like to reiterate that all sorts of armed activities should be stopped and there should be no more attacks, especially the suicide bombing attacks that we have always condemned. We will arrest those who have planned these attacks.

When you fly a jet out of Cannon, within a few minutes you're over the bombing range. Most places, you have to use half your gas to get there, you can do one or two bombing runs, then fly home because you're out of gas.

The Port Authority respects the jury's findings but in this case the jury was egregiously incorrect. On February 26, 1993, the World Trade Center bombing was an act of terrorists for which terrorists alone are responsible.

We've gone through this shock period immediately after the bombing when we all reacted simultaneously to condemn it. But now many people are confused as to how to deal with it.

To hold the Port Authority twice as liable as the terrorists for the 1993 bombing stands logic, rationality and reason on its head.

Bombing for five more years and then finding a way to leave is unacceptable, so she said the right thing.

Britain in 1939 and 1940 really thought they were going to lose the war. It looked like they were going to lose. There was bombing every day, and people were literally starving.

Before I went I guess some groups were bombing areas. So in that respect I was a little nervous about going and some people had pulled out of going on the trip, but I made the decision that --- and a lot of other people did too ?- we were going to go and represent our country, and it ended up being a really good experience.

Besides the Tour's importance in sport, the historical world events that unfolded with the very country in which Ruth wore this uniform which initiated the involvement of the United States into World War II with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, only added to the desirability of this piece.

Everything about starting out in comedy is pride-swallowing, from handing out fliers to bombing in front of audiences.

The time has come, Mr. President, where NATO needs to get off its high horse, restrain its ego and instead of trying to save face over a major foreign policy blunder, start thinking about saving lives. It is time to stop the bombing and put everyone's effort into finding a diplomatic solution that will quickly result in removal of ... Serbian troops in Kosovo.

The whole thing has escalated into what is now a bombing and shooting attack on Catholics on a nightly basis.

It would take them bombing us here, or invading us. Then I would definitely go.

The secretary general strongly condemns today's suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

The strength of feeling that is on display in Beijing is understandable, but the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade was an acknowledged mistake, and one that is deeply regretted, ... But it is important however to recall why we are engaged in this mission and why we had to reluctantly take action.

The terrible bombing here in Riyadh today showed the wisdom of that decision.

I've always been fascinated with Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, having lived in London in the '80s when there was an Irish republican bombing campaign there.

Preliminary indications from the school indicate (the student) probably said it in passing, as an off-hand joke. But you don't just joke around about things like that. Of all the times in the world to make a joke about bombing a school, this was clearly not the time.

After the first three days of bombing you realize this is precise bombing. Instead, you begin to worry about when the troops come in -- how are Iraqi soldiers going to react, how are coalition forces going to be..,

Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.

Do you not cover today's car bombing because you want to do a longer piece about the return of the agricultural economy?

Defendant does not intend to profit in any way from the Oklahoma City bombing tragedy and in the event this court imposes no fine, or a nominal fine, and does not order restitution to exceed $4,100, the defendant will sign and file with the court an agreement and promise not to profit from the Oklahoma City bombing tragedy.

Coalition ground and air forces are on the ground... they are bombing the Taliban.

Coalition ground and air forces are on the ground ... they are bombing the Taliban.

Ashland shot the lights out. We tried a triangle-and-two on their outside shooters. Then they put in some other girls that we don't know who they were, and they start bombing 3s. It was unbelievable.

As a kid, I remember John Daly bombing it around St. Andrews in 1995 to win the British Open, and people say we are similar in a lot of ways.

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

You need to understand the pain, the horror, the agony that the bombing put so many families through.

The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietnam, made frightening reading once made public on the orders of Congress.

They were, in fact, herded into an area and were, in fact, told before the event took place, 'Now you're going to see what a NATO bombing strike is like,'

Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield.

There's a temptation, I think, because there's not an active bombing campaign under way on any particular day for people who want to run out and say, 'Well, it's over with.' It's not,

There's been a continuous upgrade since the bombing of the Murrah building.

It's less lonely. Sketch comedy is much more fun than stand-up. You can still have a good time when you're bombing in sketch comedy because at least you're bombing with other people.

It looks exactly like an underwater bombing range. There are craters anywhere from 20 feet to 40 feet in diameter and 5 to 15 feet deep.

It looks exactly like an underwater bombing range, ... There are craters anywhere from 20 feet to 40 feet in diameter and 5 to 15 feet deep.

The bombing today is a continuation (of) bombing by the Palestinians, another terror act, assassinations and murder and shelling and so on,

The bombing itself, the killing itself, are enough to arouse people's feelings, ... The Chinese students just are very, very patriotic. They love their country.

It's intellectually indefensible to say that they weren't conspirators, because they were. Their own testimony indicates that. They knew the date, time and place of the bombing and both of them assisted materially.

There was an enormous motorcade, several dozen cars, which then wound its way from the airport through the city where there is still very, very intense anger over the NATO bombing and the deaths that were caused by it,

Not to say they were physically here, but the data led us to believe there was some activity related to the original World Trade Center bombing that these guys were somehow affiliated with,