Terrorist Quotes - Page 23

• More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

  Thomas E. Donilon

  Pakistan, World, Extremist

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• The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.

  Trey Parker

  Growing Up, Marijuana, Skills

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• The President of the United States has super star status. He's not a normal person, because he's protected like no other person in the world and if this man's life is in danger, the whole world is kind of in peril in a way, because the leader of the free world could fall into the hands of terrorists.

  Roland Emmerich

  Stars, Fall, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• Terrorism is usually fueled by poverty, and the fanatical faith of the terrorists who truly believe that the more people they kill who do not subscribe to their faith, the greater their reward in heaven.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, People, Heaven

  "Dr. Jane Goodall: Healing and possibility of peace". CNN Chat Room, edition.cnn.com. September 27, 2001.

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• Israel does not target civilians. It targets the terrorists.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Doe, Target

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world into two, combatants and noncombatants. You can attack deliberately combatants, but not deliberately noncombatants. Israel acts that way. It attacks combatants and accidentally kills noncombatants. But in the case of the terrorists, it's the exact opposite. They deliberately attack combatants - noncombatants, civilians, deliberately.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  War, Israel, Law

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Any attention to them (terrorists) on the part of the media, any double-standard interpretation of their motives and results of their activity means nothing but a political and administrative support of terrorist acts

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Media, Support

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• Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

  Aaron Klein

  Israel, Organization, Violence

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• But as I often say, terrorists wont check our party registration before they blow us up.

  Jane Harman

  Party, Blow, Checks

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• The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

  Lowell Bergman

  Wind, Organization, People

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• Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.

  Bruce Schneier

  Country, Way, Damage

  Bruce Schneier (2014). “Bruce Schneier on Trust Set”, p.471, John Wiley & Sons

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• John Kerry told Tom Ridge he was too busy to receive a Homeland Security briefing. I thought that was odd, since you're not supposed to ignore terrorist threats until after you become president.

  David Letterman

  President, Busy, Odd

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• An invaluable little book.... What Makes a Terrorist uses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about terrorism.... Krueger finds one familiar fact in all his numbers. Countries with fewer civil liberties tend to produce more terrorists.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Country, Book, Numbers

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• There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.

  Irwin Redlener

  War, Mind, Transition

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• The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Police, September 11, Facts

  "Talk your way out of conflict and misery" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2005.

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• This is no time to be precious about locating the exact individuals directly involved in this particular terrorist attack.... We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, Cheer, Dancing

  "This is war". townhall.com. September 14, 2001.

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• Many people in America throw the term "fascism" around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state.

  David Foster Wallace

  America, People, Corporations

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• Years ago I was asked this question: Do terrorists fear anything? I said, 'I suspect they would fear a morally strong America.' They would know that a morally strong America would not be dislodged. You can always appeal to a point of vulnerability which would break a people up. [Terrorists] don't fear so much the weaponry as the moral courage, and I think a morally strong America would be intimidating to them.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Strong, Thinking, America

  Source: www.virtueonline.org

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• A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Technique, Moments

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The reality is that terrorists can attack any time at any minute, 24 hours a day, using a variety of techniques, in any place at all. And it's not possible to defend in every place, against every technique, against every conceivable approach. It means that you can't stop every terrorist attack. Innocent men, women and children are going to be killed if terrorists are determined to do it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Children, Mean, Reality

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards. [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon]

  Orrin Hatch

  Fear, September 11, World

  "Witnesses and leaders on terrorist attacks". www.cnn.com. September 11, 2001.

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• The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moving, Games, Police

  The Secret Agent ch. 4 (1907)

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• One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

  Don DeLillo

  Novelists, Connections, Consciousness

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• Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, War, Taken

  "Is It ISIS or ISIL? That Depends On Who You're Asking". Interview with Arun Rath, wvik.org. September 14, 2014.

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• The CIA’s resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves – not polar bears on icebergs.

  John Barrasso

  Caves, Bears, Resources

  "Barrasso wants hearings on CIA's climate change work" by Ben Geman, thehill.com. January 5, 2010.

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