Terrorism Quotes

"Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism"

Julia Gillard, Statesman

"No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues"

Howard Coble, Politician

"Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"The war against terrorism is terrorism"

Woody Harrelson, Actor

"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life"

Allyson Schwartz, Politician

"Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"We need new partnerships in fighting terrorism and building peace"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

"The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down"

Vinton Cerf, Inventor

"The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

"First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

"Terrorism is not new to black people"

Vernon Jordan, Businessman

"We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism"

Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer

"Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism"

Lucille Roybal-Allard

"There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won"

Patty Hearst, Celebrity

"Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

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