Top 291 Bombing Quotes & Sayings

Bombing people for economic reasons is as horrible as killing a pregnant woman.

Any jackass can talk about bombing Iran.

I didn't vote for Bush, and I'm not happy particularly that he's president. But I will say I'm impressed that he didn't start bombing Afghanistan the day after Sept. 11. The more time that passes without him bombing Afghanistan, the more I respect him.

I may not have taken the stand, but I was an expert on the Boston bombing trial.

Bombing Syria will achieve nothing.

Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.

If you're looking for the suspect in a suicide bombing, here's a clue: Look for the dead guy.

Every chance at destabilizing [Bashar] Assad... the bombing campaign causes a flood of refugees into Jordan, there's already half a million in Jordan. I think a bombing campaign - I think it's hard to argue that a U.S. bombing campaign is going to cause less refugees. And I think it causes more refugees and more of a humanitarian disaster. I think it causes, or allows, the risk of Israel being attacked with a gas attack to go up, if we attack Assad. So there's all kinds of bad things.

How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

I've been going up and bombing everywhere. It's great. I love it. It's hilarious.

Nixon at one point informs Kissinger . . . that he wanted bombing of Cambodia. And Kissinger loyally transmits the order to the Pentagon to carry out a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves . . . genocide.

We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we're conducting in Iraq and Syria.

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.

Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.

There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve no good outcomes other than safeguarding the 'credibility' of those doing the bombing. Relatedly, it's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.

Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

Our work in investigating the Oklahoma City bombing reflected some of the very best the FBI has to offer.

Within days of Richard Nixon's inauguration in January 1969, national-security adviser Kissinger asked the Pentagon to lay out his bombing options in Indochina. The previous president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, had suspended his own bombing campaign against North Vietnam in hopes of negotiating a broader cease-fire.

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

Newt Gingrich...is absolutely for bombing Iran and for lowering gas prices. And I've just to say, you can't be for both. They are diametrically opposed.

The first suicide bombing that entered my consciousness was the Beirut embassy bombing. It was very personal. I'd been in the embassy and I knew most of the people in the station who were killed in the bombing. So you take the personal aspect of it and the mystery of who the bomber was and the fact that a small group of people could drive us out of a country that was absolutely key to the United States, and what was behind this... The fact that they've been able to hide the embassy bombers' identities for all these years tells me we're up against a very capable movement.

Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.

Bombing is a very dangerous option because it's so convenient and because at home it's politically acceptable because our boys aren't dying on the ground, it gets us into tremendous trouble, which, of course, in general is true of bombing.

There was an assumption that aerial bombing of civilians in World War II would cause fragile, working-class people to basically have nervous breakdowns and it would paralyze the state. That was the logic of aerial bombing. In fact, it doesn't happen at all, but the logic behind aerial bombing has never stopped, even though it never demoralizes, terrorizes, or paralyzes a population.

In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.

The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.

To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up bombing ordinary city folk. For the US to be bombing Sunni towns all these years later on behalf of Mr. al-Maliki would be to invite terrorism against the US.

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

Not a single gun was used at the Oklahoma bombing.

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.

Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.

The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.

ID cards do not tell the police who is about to commit a suicide bombing.

If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.

After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.

I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values.

People forget that many of the aspects of the Selma campaign were laid out in response to the church bombing in Birmingham.

The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th.

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.

I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.

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.

I only find out where countries are when we start bombing them.

What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing?

I grew up in London, a city devastated by the bombing. I am, you might say, a Blitz Baby.

On April 14, 1986, when the Reagan administration launched an airstrike on Libya in clear violation of international law, Kissinger did the rounds on news shows to justify the bombing. The day after the bombing, Kissinger appeared on ABC's 'Good Morning America' to voice his 'total support.' Attacking Libya, he said, was 'correct' and 'necessary.'

I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

They (#ISIS) are going to be bombing American cities coming across from Mexico.

A joke bombing on stage doesn't bother me, especially if it's intended to bomb.

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

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. And you know that half an hour from now, you're still gonna be bombing. It takes a thick skin.

Take a look at the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The US was quite open about the reasons for the bombing. A main reason was to preserve stability and credibility. Serbia was interfering with stability, meaning that it was the one part of the Balkans that was not integrated into the Western-dominated (mostly US-dominated) system.

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

Clinton's bombing campaign has caused all of these problems to explode

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