Barack Obama Quotes About Defeat

• Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, New York, War

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

• My core goal is to dismantle, defeat, destroy al Qaeda and its allies that killed Americans and are still plotting to go kill Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Goal, Allies, Als

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• This is my number one priority. I've got a lot of things on my plate. But my top priority is to defeat ISIL and to eliminate the scourge of this barbaric terrorism that's been taking place around the world. Groups like ISIL can't destroy us. They can't defeat us. They don't produce anything. They're not an existential threat to us. It is very important for us to not respond with fear.

  Barack Obama

  Priorities, Important, World

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• We won't apologise for our way of life, nor will we weaver in its defence, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken, you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.

  Barack Obama

  Broken, Stronger, Way

• You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Iraq, Defeat

  Barack Obama (2008). “Yes, We Can”, p.78, BoD – Books on Demand

• We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.

  Barack Obama

  Goal, Isil, Defeat

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.

  Barack Obama

  Enemy, Defeat, Torture

  "Guantánamo, Six Years Later" by Shayana Kadidal, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2008.

• Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it.

  Barack Obama

  America, Enemy, World

  "Guantánamo, Six Years Later" by Shayana Kadidal, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2008.

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