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Quotes About Terrorism

Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.
~ John Howard
I am a terrorist and nihilist in theory as the others are with their weapons. Theoretical violence, not truth, is the only resource left us.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Already God existed only in the desperate attempt to prove his existence. It is the same today with human beings, whose existence we attempt desperately to verify by the very means that make it improbable. Feminism, populism, humanism: all words with the suffix '-ism' are the caricature of their root. Of women, of the people, of the human. Including terrorism: the caricature of terror?
~ Jean Baudrillard
não há equivalente ao caráter cego, não-representativo, desprovido de sentido, do ato terrorista, senão o comportamento cego, desprovido de sentido e além da representação que é o das massas. Eles têm isso de comum porque são a forma atual mais radical, mais exacerbada, de negação de qualquer sistema representativo.
~ Jean Baudrillard
But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.
~ Robert Mueller
The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
~ Michael Mandelbaum
If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them.
~ Barack Obama
I will work tirelessly to defend all communities, including the LGBTQ one, from terrorism and violence.
~ Donald Trump
The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.
~ George W. Bush
According to the New York Daily News, Geraldo said he is now carrying a gun, and he will personally shoot Osama bin Laden if he finds him. If Osama also has a gun, this could work out okay.
~ Jay Leno
I am deeply concerned for the safety of our people brought by a lack of a comprehensive strategy to defeat ISIL.
~ Joni Ernst
This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.
~ Michael McCaul
We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to strike yet again at the U.S. homeland.
~ John O. Brennan
It's clearly the intent of the Islamic State to strike us here in the United States. And that's why we have to go on offense in the war against the Islamic State to fight them where they are before they fight us here in the United States.
~ Tom Cotton
I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.
~ Bill Owens
I have already said that I find the coalition air strikes to be insufficient. A ground intervention will be necessary to overcome Daesh.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.
~ Paul Wolfowitz
If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.
~ Rand Paul
Al Qaeda and ISIS may have global aspirations, but their ability to penetrate a society is strongly influenced by local conditions.
~ Tedros Adhanom
What they have done, ISIS is very well outspoken about how much they hate our freedom, who we are as Americans.
~ James Lankford
This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.
~ Mitt Romney
Nothing will ever have the impact that 9/11 had on Boeing and on the world. It just changed things overnight.
~ Alan Mulally
Anxiety suits the status quo very well. Anxious people make good consumers and good workers. Governments and big business, therefore, love terrorism – they adore it, it's good for business. Anxiety will drive us back into our comfort blankets of credit-card shopping and bad food, so the system deliberately produces anxiety while simultaneously promising to take it away.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.
~ Tom Lantos