Terrorism Quotes

The hardship, the fighting against vigilance should stop, and terrorism should be fought decisively.

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

Anderson [Cooper], I guess the question I have is why can't CNN cover Obamacare, and ISIS, and radical Islamic terrorism?

You guys should know we do [ cover Obamacare, and ISIS, and radical Islamic terrorism] because you watch CNN all day long.

The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.

I've always maintained terrorism passes through Pakistan, it doesn't evolve in Pakistan.

Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism.

If we can't meet with our friends, I don't know how we're going to lead the world in terms of dealing with critical issues like terrorism.

I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave.

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

Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.

Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.

A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism.

While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.

Every statute for terrorism requires violence.

Israel has an absolute right to exist - not only to exist - but to exist in a way that they're not under threat of terrorism.

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

We face an essential need to reach a definition of terrorism that will enjoy wide international agreement, thus enabling international operations against terrorist organizations.

I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.

We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

Obviously, we will respond to the concerns of any member of Congress. The government of Uzbekistan has been a good partner in the war on terrorism.

With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism. The perception is that it's impossible to guard against.

The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.

I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

As governor of Ohio, I have an obligation to keep the 11.5 million people in Ohio safe. And we have been very effective with our Joint Terrorism Task Force, being able to make busts.

Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.

The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.

The idea now that we're going to fight terrorism through gun control I think is just utterly fatuous.

Cyber will be part of any future conflict - whether it's a nation state or terrorism.

The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about.

When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.

Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us, in the administration, that he thought the war on terrorism was moving in the wrong direction and he chose not to.

What we will not wait for is that particular nexus of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction that is extremism, and the technology to come together in a way that is harmful to the United States.

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

That's the thing about terrorism - it works. Especially for the terrorists - they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.

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

It isn't poverty that breeds terrorism, but terrorism that breeds poverty.

Living in the capital, I worry about terrorism, but I no longer panic. For this I have my child to thank.

Terrorism is nothing new. Lots of terrorist attacks are nothing new, but we pay a lot more attention to them today.

Terrorism is an immediate problem that people are very concerned about, and I am as concerned about that as anyone else. But it isn't an either or situation.

Accordingly, it is not a Muslim ban at all, but a suspension of entrants from seven countries with conditions on the ground that both promote terrorism and make effective vetting impossible.

None of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

Bush and his commanders in the war on terrorism are willing to waste non-terrorists to kill terrorists. Right or wrong, that is not caring about the dignity of every life.

Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people.

I think because of all of the difficulties in Europe with terrorism and stuff, a lot of people ended up going to Portugal. They felt, I think, safer in Portugal.