Quotes About Strategy

We are keeping New Jersey one step, several steps, ahead of terrorism.

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

We can't be politically correct - right or left - in the war on terrorism. Period.

Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.

We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

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

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

Contrary to what many people believe, terrorism is actually a very expensive business.

The campaign against terrorism is going to be global and it's going to be long and there's reason to expect there will be difficulties along the way.

There's no national strategy to deal with combating terrorism and foreign fighters.

In 2001, terrorism was fought in a completely different way.

If the U.S. wants to destroy ISIS, it can destroy ISIS. We won't end terrorism around the world. But we can destroy ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Prominent generals are telling us that. Prominent national-security strategists are telling us that. So let's do it.

Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.

Elected president of the Republic, I would immediately, and with no hesitation, carry out the battle plan against Islamist terrorism and against judicial laxity.

A big challenge in combating terrorism is learning how to think about things that we can't imagine.

In our effort to tackle terrorism, we should look into all possible avenues of cyber-crime, its linkages with the terrorist world, and how these could be dealt with.

The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can't learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they've learned not to use the telephone.

I don't think you're going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with small terrorist groups again. I don't think they're going to be occupying foreign nations in order to dry up terrorist groups within them. I think that lesson has been learned.

Right now we're on the President Obama plan, and we'll stay with that. And from my perspective, the reason we're there is to make sure that we can achieve the principal goal which is ensure that Afghanistan can never become a safe haven for a terrorist organization like al Qaeda.

As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.