Counter Terrorism Quotes

• Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Isil, Terrorism

  "Dumb Wars". Article by Rosa Brooks, foreignpolicy.com. November 11, 2015.

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• The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counterterrorism purposes.

  John Ashcroft

  Purpose, Terrorism, Members

  "Ashcroft defends FBI's Mueller". www.cnn.com. May 31, 2002.

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• I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

  Paul Bremer

  Thinking, Focus, Serious

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• Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Democracies Have, Democracy, Terrorism

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

  Jim Ramstad

  Community, Directors, Needs

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• According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Iraq, White, House

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• Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

  Barack Obama

  Isil, Degrade

  Barack Obama (2017). “Il futuro è il posto migliore: Il 44° Presidente degli Stati Uniti d’America in parole sue”, Rizzoli

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• Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Military, Thinking, Law

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• One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

  Frank Gaffney

  Mass Destruction, Effort, Important

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• This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years.

  Barack Obama

  Safe Haven, Years, Air

  "Obama Declares War on Syria". Interview with Mike Whitney, www.counterpunch.org. September 12, 2014.

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• The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Country, President, Information

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• We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards

  David Blunkett

  Years, Identity, Three

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• Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

  Vladimir Putin

  Creating, Community, World

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• I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent.

  Theresa May

  Want, Terrorism, Regimes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

  Michael Scheuer

  Community, Intellectual, Assuming

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• When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.

  John O. Brennan

  Law, People, Allies

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

  Claire Danes

  Gun, Psychology, Gadgets

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• Islamist-jihadist terrorism-a plague that has spread to almost every corner of the world-creates painful dilemmas for the peoples and decision makers who confront it. Its rapid, shape-shifting advance has sometimes confounded efforts to comprehend its origins, motives, and aims. Its sophistication in exploiting liberal values poses challenges and difficulties for the Western world, and for liberal democratic states in general, in attaining effective and balanced counter-terrorism policies.

  Boaz Ganor

  Effort, Decision, Challenges

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• One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.

  John Poindexter

  Speaks Out, Community, Defense

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• I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.

  John S. Pistole

  Cutting, Technology, Tsa

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• I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity.

  Richard Armitage

  Thinking, Hands, President

  Hearing by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, www.washingtonpost.com. March 24, 2004.

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• Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Law, Community, Enforcement

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• We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

  Cofer Black

  Safe Haven, Operations, Collecting

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• Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.

  William Kristol

  Country, Safe, Surveillance

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• It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Men, Thinking

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