“This is a criminal act, a political assassination and a continued Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people.”
Saeb Erakat
“The government strongly condemns this assassination and believes that the only people who benefit from this are those who want to block the course of justice and move the trial out of Iraq .”
Leith Kubba
“Not to scare the people, but it is true that there is an assassination plot against the president.”
Michael Defensor
“It would make people more comfortable if I made a film that said all targeted assassination is bad, or good, but the movie doesn't take either of those positions. It refuses to. Many of those pundits on the Left and Right would love the film to land somewhere definite. It puts a real burden on the audience to figure out for themselves how they feel about these issues. There are no easy answers to the most complex story of the last 50 years.”
Steven Spielberg
“is to get the truth behind the assassination of Hariri in response to the demands of the Lebanese people themselves. There are some people who want the truth to remain hidden and are threatened by what the truth may reveal and I think that that's the link with the May Chidiac attack yesterday.”
Rafik Hariri
“Calling for the assassination of a head of state is a terrorist act,”
Hugo Chavez
“To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin,”
Michael Beschloss
