Terrorism Quotes - Page 8

• Terrorism itself is not the greatest danger we face.

  Robert Reich

  Faces, Danger

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• We're not going to have a perfect batting average and it's important that Americans understand that.

  Michael Leiter

  Average, Perfect, Important

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• The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Military, Civilized

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• The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

  Pierre Salinger

  War, Islamic, Responsible

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• Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

  Arundhati Roy

  Justice, Alternatives, Courses

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.324, Penguin Books India

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• The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

  Gijs de Vries

  Fighting, Roles, Authority

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• I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.

  Andie MacDowell

  Country, Government, Years

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• The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Country, War, Oil

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• Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves

  William Cohen

  Eugenics, Volcanoes, Earthquakes

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• Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally... A terrorist nuclear attack against an American city could take many forms. A worst case scenario would be the detonation of a nuclear device within a city. Depending upon the size and sophistication of the weapon, it could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.

  David Krieger

  Islamic, Cities, Worst Case Scenario

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• But the Iranians are surrounded by a sea of Sunnis who hate them. And if you look on the map, you can see that they're also surrounded by a bunch of American bases that certainly could hit them at any moment. The idea that the Iranians are a threat to the United States is absurd really. How are they going to hurt the United States of America? Unless we attack them first and then they use terrorism inside America.

  Michael Scheuer

  Hurt, Hate, Sea

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.

  Joseph Conrad

  Baskets, Terrorist, Policemen

  The Secret Agent ch. 4 (1907)

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• Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Important, Inactivity

  "President Welcomes President Chirac to White House". georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. November 6, 2001.

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• Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Strong, Government, Strong Government

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• Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

  George P. Shultz

  Law, Enforcement, Delay

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• Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Dignity, Contempt, Humans

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• Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Allies, United States, Defense

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• We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

  Abdallah II

  Evil, World, Able

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• I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

  Dick Cheney

  Real, Cities, Ideas

  Dick Cheney during Vice-Presidential Debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2004.

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• This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

  Tony Blair

  Our World, Evil, Today

  Statement at the Trade Union Conference on the 9/11 Attacks, delivered 11 September 2001

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• Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

  Roger McGough

  War, Thinking, Everyday

  Roger McGough (1989). “Selected poems, 1967-1987”, Jonathan Cape

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• The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream "Allahu Akbar" before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear 5000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business.

  Peter Joseph

  Our World, Government, Suits

  "Zeitgeist: Addendum". Documentary, History, War, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I think the Americans don't understand that this is a complicated new ball game. People everywhere have seen that a few determined people who were not scared to die can create a huge upheaval within a major superpower.

  Imran Khan

  Thinking, Games, People

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• In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western, multireligious modern society is some kind of a challenge to this. These, I feel, are the main causes [for terrorism], and, when combined with lots of anger and frustration, cause a huge amount of hate.

  Dalai Lama

  Hate, Frustration, Challenges

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people.

  David Hackworth

  Commitment, Years, People

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