Quotes About Terrorism

We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.

Trust me: our critical infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber-attack, to potential terrorist attack, and we are not taking this threat seriously enough.

The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.

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

To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training.

America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings.

9/11 changed America fundamentally, far more so than outsiders realised at the time. For Americans, it genuinely was a new Pearl Harbour: an attack on the homeland that made them feel vulnerable for the first time in 60 years.

Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.

Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.

Our nation's vital infrastructure - such as power grids and transportation hubs - becomes more vulnerable when individual devices get hacked. Criminals and terrorists who want to infiltrate systems and disrupt sensitive networks may start their attacks through access to just one person's smartphone.

The United States should have stepped up and destroyed ISIS at its origins rather than wait until ISIS grew their capabilities and influence.

Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?

Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.

Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.

United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.

If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information.

If there is one Osama bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterwards.

Osama bin Laden is gone. The war in Iraq is over. Afghanistan is coming to a close.

If you call it al-Qaida or bin Ladenism or jihadism, whatever you call it, it's proliferated.

I don't necessarily buy the story that Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11.

Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.