Barack Obama Quotes About Terror

• We remember the grind of the insurgency -- the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight for Ramadi; from Mosul in the north to Basra in the south -- your will proved stronger than the terror of those who tried to break it.

  Barack Obama

  Suicide, War, Fighting

  Obama's Speech to Troops at Fort Bragg, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

• Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.

  Barack Obama

  Target, Bombs, Used

  "The Boston Bombing and the Failure of the Military/Intelligence Complex" by Renee Parsons, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.

• For the Palestinians' efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, Rejection, Effort

  "George Mitchell and King Abdullah II". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. May 22, 2011.

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  Barack Obama

  War, Police, Succeed

  Speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, July 12, 2004.

• Our enemies are fully aware that they can use oil as a weapon against America. And if we don't take this threat as seriously as the bombs they build or the guns they buy, we will be fighting the War on Terror with one hand tied behind our back.

  Barack Obama

  War, Fighting, Gun

• Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

  Barack Obama

  Paris, Secret, Unions

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.274, Canongate Books

• Now, at times this issue has tended to degenerate into an 'either-or' type of debate. Either we protect our people from terror or we protect our most cherished principles. But that is a false choice. It asks too little of us and assumes too little about America.

  Barack Obama

  America, Issues, People

• That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.

  Barack Obama

  Teaching, Self, Issues

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.190, Canongate Books

• We have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith. Professed to stand up for Islam, but in fact are betraying it. Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Thinking, Unique

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

• The government of Libya announced the death of Moammar Gadhafi. This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the people of Libya, who now have the opportunity to determine their own destiny in a new and democratic Libya. The Gadhafi regime ruled the Libyan people with an iron fist. The enormous potential of the Libyan people was held back and terror was used as a political weapon. The last major regime strongholds have fallen. The new government is consolidating the control over the country. And one of the world's longest-serving dictators is no more.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Opportunity, Destiny

  Source: www.pbs.org

• When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances for waiting and for patience is over. Too many lives have been lost, too many billions of dollars have been spent for us to trust the president on another tired and failed policy that's opposed by generals and experts, Democrats and Republicans, Americans and many of the Iraqis themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Struggle

  "Tucker" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. January 31, 2007.

• The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime.

  Barack Obama

  Garden, People, Rose

  Remarks by the President and Governor Romney in Second Presidential Debate, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 17, 2012.

• I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  America, Light, People

  Remarks by the President in Golden, CO, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 13, 2012.

• 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

• The terror attacks have reshaped the campaign and may have given another boost to Donald Trump.

  Barack Obama

  Terror Attacks, Campaigns, May

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• Shooting in Orlando is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation, is an attack on all of us and on the fundamental values of equality and dignity that define us as a country. And no act of hate or terror will ever change who we are or the values that make us Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Hate, Dignity

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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