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Top 10 Quotes

1. SEAL Team 6's Victory

By Frances RomeroWednesday, Dec. 07, 2011
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"We got him."

—President Obama, in the White House Situation Room, after learning that SEAL Team 6 had located and killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 1 (TIME.com)

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