Terrorism Quotes - Page 17

• Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

  Jim Cooper

  Leadership, Strong, War

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• Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission.

  Matt Rees

  Blow, Cells, People

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• I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Talking, Years, Two

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• It is what it is. It, meaning terrorism. Terrorism is what it is.

  Gretchen Carlson

  It Is What It Is

  "Fox News Gives Paris Massacre the Benghazi Treatment" by James West, www.motherjones.com. January 7, 2015.

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• Just as Hitler used the Reichstag burning, the U.S. government now uses the so-called two wars, the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism, to fuel fear in the population and establish a police security state.

  Ralph Metzner

  War, Government, Two

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• These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Manipulation, Economic

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• Yes, I am a terrorist and I am proud of it. And I support terrorism so long as it was against the United States Government and against Israel, because you are more than terrorists; you are the one who invented terrorism and using it every day. You are butchers, liars and hypocrites.

  Ramzi Yousef

  Liars, Hypocrite, Government

  "Excerpts From Statements in Court". www.nytimes.com. January 9, 1998.

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• There are basically two approaches to solving the problem of terrorism. One is that you understand the mind of the terrorist in order to establish defenses against it. The other is that you kill all the terrorists and all the potential terrorists.

  Jude Wanniski

  Order, Two, Mind

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• Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing 'rogue states', opposing 'Islamic fundamentalism', or containing China.

  Walden Bello

  Military, Islamic, Fighting

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• Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all stem from the same Abrahamic roots. All three reject terrorism.

  H. John Poole

  Roots, Islam, Three

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• Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.

  Jack Ohman

  Ideas, Structure, Strikes

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• Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

  Gijs de Vries

  Europe, Long, Tragic

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• If we are to overcome terrorism and violence, we need education. That is the only way we can win.

  Sakena Yacoobi

  Winning, Overcoming, Needs

  "Half the Sky". Book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2008.

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• If you want to end terrorism stop participating in it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Want, Ends, Participating

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• Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.

  Naomi Klein

  Real, Blow, Rights

  "A deadly franchise" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2003.

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• Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.

  Rollo May

  Drug, Vivid, Matter

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.

  Ron Paul

  Honesty, War, Order

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• Six months have passed since that horrible, horrible event of terrorism in the twin towers and Washington. I hope people all over the world recognize that these bad people, these criminals who committed crimes like that will be shown to the courts, and the people will have justice, and that we all shall work together to prevent these bad people from hurting us again.

  Hamid Karzai

  Hurt, People, Justice

  "Afghan capital optimistic 6 months later" By Rose Arce, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2002.

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• If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

  Barack Obama

  America, Evil, Want

  "Statement by the President". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 16, 2013.

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• Democracy must be our answer to terrorism

  Angela Merkel

  Inspiring, Democracy, Answers

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• Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

  Francois Hollande

  Inspiring, Drug, Fuel

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• Here is what Muslims and Muslim organizations are expected to say: "As a Muslim, I condemn this attack and terrorism in any form." This expectation we place on Muslims, to be absolutely clear, is Islamophobic and bigoted.

  Max Fisher

  Organization, Expectations, Form

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• To make us a terrorist target in a region that is full of terrorism is dumb and unforgiveable.

  John Hewson

  Stupid, Dumb, Target

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To do that they, the NSA specifically, targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyses them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient, and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government or someone they suspect of terrorism, they're collecting you're communications to do so.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Government, Nsa

  "• Edward Snowden Interview Transcript FULL TEXT: Read the Guardian's Entire Interview With the Man Who Leaked PRISM" by Gabriel Rodriguez, mic.com. June 10, 2013.

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• You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Government, Identity, Roles

  "Frontier Freedom: An Interview with Malcolm Wallop". Interview with Rick Henderson, William H. Mellor , Ill, reason.com. November 1995.

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