Terrorist Attacks Quotes

• These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Terror Attacks, America

  "Bush: U.S. feels 'quiet, unyielding anger" by Ian Christopher McCaleb, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2001.

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• We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.

  Fred Thompson

  Successful, Nuclear, Disaster

  Iowa Campaign Speech "Hands Down" in Days Inn - Manchester, Iowa, December 18, 2007.

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• It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Soil, Human Life, Difficult

  "Rep. Saxby Chambliss: Anti-terrorism measures in the U.S". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2001.

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• Bombing embassies or destroying non-military installations like the World Trade Center is no jihad. “[T]hose who launched the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks not only killed thousands of innocent people in the United States but also put the lives of millions of Muslims across the world at risk. Bin Laden is not a prophet that we should put thousands of lives at risk for.

  Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

  Military, People, Risk

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• The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective.

  Robert Pape

  Suicide, Facts, Driven

  "The Logic of Suicide Terrorism". Interview with Scott McConnell, www.globalpolicy.org. July 18, 2005.

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• What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.

  Robert Pape

  Suicide, Military, Goal

  Robert Pape (2005). “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism”, p.4, Random House

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• Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

  Silvan Shalom

  Suicide, Numbers, Bombers

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• If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  People, Tragedy, Way

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• Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.

  Ron Fournier

  Grief, Anger, Acceptance

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• Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

  Juan Williams

  Airplane, Npr, Yesterday

  "JUAN WILLIAMS: I Was Fired for Telling the Truth" By Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2010.

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• No matter how much of our liberty Washington takes away in the name of security, there are no guarantees that there won't be another terrorist attack. Instead of attacking American liberties, the government ought to go after terrorists in their countries of origin. It should be like what our military attempted during WWII. Don't wait to defend ships against the kamikaze -- bomb the fields where they take off.

  Walter E. Williams

  Country, Military, Government

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• One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.

  Vito Fossella

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price.

  Jo Ann Davis

  Country, Forever, Liberty

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• We've only recently turned the corner on the Sept. 11 attacks being blamed on Jews and Israelis, as well as almost every other terrorist attack, whether in London, Madrid, Bali or Egypt.

  Abraham Foxman

  Egypt, London, Madrid

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• We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack

  John Ashcroft

  Thinking, Risk, Way

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• The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is a prime example. Even though Obama KNEW - from the moment of the assault - that it was a TERRORIST attack, he didn't let the American people know.

  Chuck Norris

  People, Example, Moments

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• I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some of the oversight, increased some of the safeguards. But my assessment, and my team's assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. In the abstract, you can complain about 'Big Brother' and how this is a potential program run amok. But when you actually look at the details, then, I think we've struck the right balance.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Brother, Team

  Obama's Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

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• Deeply saddened by the news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his fervent prayers for the victims and for all those who mourn.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Prayer, Father, News

  "Pope, Anglican Head Offer Prayers for London Victims" by Pauline J. Chang, www.christianpost.com. July 7, 2005.

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• We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities.

  Paul Cellucci

  Military, America, Looks

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• London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who had started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.

  Ian Mcewan

  Cities, Terrorist Groups, Energy

  "Ian McEwan's 'Sweet Tooth' Pits Spy Vs. Scribe". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. November 10, 2012.

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• If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when more victims than ever were hanged by Iran, women and children in Afghanistan were bombed, whole communities were massacred in South Sudan, 1800 Palestinians were starved and murdered by Assad in Syria, hundreds in Pakistan were killed by jihadist terror attacks, 10,000 Iraqis were killed by terrorists, villagers were slaughtered in Nigeria, but you only cry out for Gaza, then you are not Pro Human Rights, you are only Anti-Israel.

  Hillel Neuer

  Children, Past, Rights

  "Test yourself: Are you pro human rights, or just anti-Israel?". blog.unwatch.org. July 15, 2014.

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• Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?

  Russ Carnahan

  Government, Earthquakes, Way

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• The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

  Robert Mueller

  Priorities, United States, Terrorist

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• And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.

  Robert Mueller

  September 11, Clerks, Agents

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• And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.

  Robert Mueller

  Justice, Support, Agents

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