Terrorism Quotes

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
Pat Roberts

Politics, War, Business

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.
Greg Bear

Trying, Before, Far

We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism.
Jack Reed

Best, War, Free

The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism.
Frank Lautenberg

Time, After, Rather

The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.
Asa Hutchinson

Women, Men, War

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.
Pope Francis I

Human, Rights, Unfair

All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.
Richard Shelby

War, Win, Whatever

The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.
Richard Reeves

War, Winning, Trying

Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.
David Hunt

Saying, Fighting, Since

We can't be politically correct - right or left - in the war on terrorism. Period.
David Hunt

War, Left, Period

The war against terrorism is one we must win.
Lisa Murkowski

War, Win, Against

Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation.
Norm Coleman

War, Heart, Forget

It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven.
George Allen

May, United, Open

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
Barbara Lee

Against, Action, Military

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
Richard Armitage

Power, War, Finance

We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
Jeremiah Wright

Home, Done, Black

The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.
Michael Oxley

Government, Cannot, Risk

We've got jihadists. That doesn't mean that all Muslims are problems with respect to terrorism, but there is something going on here. We've got a problem dealing with one aspect of one portion of modern Islam - just as hundreds of years ago the world had a problem with Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition.
James Woolsey

Respect, Islam, Mean

American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.
James Woolsey

War, American, Against

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.
Craig L. Thomas

Home, War, Here

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
Randy Forbes

Life, History, Knew

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.
Tom Ridge

Time, War, Continue

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.
Mike Honda

Times, Tension, Tragedy

The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.
Stjepan Mesic

Human, Rights, Global

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.
Pete Stark

War, Smart, Against

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
Terry Waite

Life, Try, Others

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.
Bob Hawke

War, Real, Done

In 1985, the Iranian sponsorship of terrorism was clear, solid evidence.
Robert McFarlane

Clear, Evidence, Solid

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
William Blum

Political, Often, Social

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
Mark Poster

Good, Government, Enemy

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