Quotes About Terrorism

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak of from the North, there has been very little terrorism from the West Bank. It's a kind of peace. I hope for a better and more enduring peace. Peace is not an endgame; we will never be completely at peace.

Israel will not and should not leave until it is clear that the West Bank can be policed by Palestinians and that the region will not be a source of terrorism against Israel, as Gaza and South Lebanon became when Israel left there.

When Western politicians propose blanket discrimination against Islam, they bolster the terrorists' propaganda.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

Extreme Islam is not just an Iraqi or Syrian problem. It is a problem for the Western and industrialized world, too.

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

Terrorism attacks Jews, but it targets all countries and Western values. Israel is just an hors d'oeuvre.

Information-sharing between Western governments about the identities of those who have traveled to Syria and have received militant training is the key to preventing more incidents such as the one at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.

ISIL is more threatening to the Muslim world than it is to western civilization.

I predict you're going to see more and more of this shifting of al Qaeda fighters going over to ISIS because they are the game in town.

I think Americans are not guilty for 9/11; I think President Bush is not guilty for 9/11.

President Obama deserves our unalloyed praise for hastening Osama bin Laden's demise.

I think ISIS is achieving the objectives that they have set out to achieve. I think that they feel probably very emboldened. They feel pretty good. Their resiliency is extraordinary.

There was so much fear after 9/11, and that fear caused people to make the wrong decisions.

To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.

You can't call ISIS the JV team. You can't say that they're contained. Sure, we've had some success, but we have not defeated them.

We need to get serious about defeating ISIS; we just aren't serious about it yet. I would be very serious about getting it done. I know how to do it. We need to take the fight to them on the battlefield in a more serious way.

We need a president that values the role of the states, will destroy ISIS and jumpstart the economy.

Let's have a conversation about how we destroy ISIS.