Terrorist Quotes

• Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

  George W. Bush

  Inspirational, Life, Terror Attacks

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Struggle, Yesterday

  "President Nelson Mandela One-on-One". "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. May 16, 2000.

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• A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

  William Blum

  Air, Bombs, Force

  William Blum (2006). “Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower”, p.123, Zed Books

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• One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

  Gerald Seymour

  Men, Another Day, Fighter

  Gerald Seymour (2007). “Harry's Game: A Thriller”, p.44, The Overlook Press

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• Israeli murderers are called "commandos," Arab commandos are called "terrorists."

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Murderer, Commandos

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Nothing is going to hurt this country - not bioweapons, not a nuclear weapon, not a terrorist strike - there is nothing that can hurt us if we stay united and move together and have a vision for moving to the future the right way.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, Hurt, Moving

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• There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.

  George Pataki

  Children, Home, Government

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• Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

  John Doolittle

  Democracy, Stronger, Campaigns

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• Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession of nuclear weapons in addition to the weapons of mass destruction he already has, he is likely to use them or share them with terrorists. The threat of mass death on a scale never before seen residing in the hands of an unstable madman is intolerable – and must be preempted.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Mass Destruction, Hands

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• If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.

  Joichi Ito

  Law, Rights, Terrorism

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• Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.

  Meir Kahane

  Support, Important, Groups

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• If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.

  John Shelby Spong

  Yesterday, People, Giving

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• In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

  Gijs de Vries

  Military, Rights, Lawlessness

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• There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

  Molly Ivins

  Rights, People, Doe

  Molly Ivins (2004). “Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known”, p.246, Random House

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• In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat.

  Robert Mueller

  Eclipse, Cyber, Threat

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• Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

  Jacques Chirac

  War, Borders, Politics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

  Anna Lindh

  Frustration, Ideas, People

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• Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Military, Oxygen, Hymns

  Speech to American Bar Association in London, 15 July 1985, in The Times 16 July 1985

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• We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Terrorism, Invites

  Address to the Nation on Iraqi Elections, www.cnn.com. December 18, 2005.

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• The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who we are.

  Colin Powell

  Who We Are, One Thing

  "Powell: Don't Let Terrorism Change 'Who We Are'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 2, 2011.

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• Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs -- social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him -- until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Fashion, Religious, Fighting

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• Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland as they did on 9/11, as they did from Boston to Orlando to San Bernardino. And all across Europe we've seen what happened in Paris and Nice. All over Europe it's happening. It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. In many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons and you understand that.

  Donald Trump

  Nice, Islamic, Boston

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

  Howard Zinn

  War, Terrorism, Terror

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• It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Real, Names, People

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• I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

  Ulrich Beck

  Believe, Hysteria, Risk

  "Risky business". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

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