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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• The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not a cause for complacency or a time to celebrate the end of the struggle. The threat is not going away. The enemy has not lost interest. ...Fundamentally, we're in a struggle about ideology. Terrorists want to remake the world in their own image and it is the image that is intolerant of the kinds of institutions that we cherish.

  Michael Chertoff

  Country, Struggle, Years

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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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• The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Stupid, Silly, Media

  "Rep. Lamar Smith: ‘The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.’". thinkprogress.org. June 4, 2009.

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• The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us, they were a wake-up call as to what type of lunatics we are dealing with. And sleepwalking our way back into ill-sorted, dewy-eyed people personal politics is the last thing we need to set us up for the fight ahead. Come on you liberals, don't give me the morbid pleasure of saying, 'I told you so' again.

  Julie Burchill

  Fighting, People, Giving

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• If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks in the United States of America does not represent Islam. God is not behind assassins.

  Muhammad Ali

  Powerful, Teaching, America

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Powerful, American History

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• Whether they did or didn't, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.

  Eric Bolling

  America, Safe, Soil

  "Obama's Debt Threats: Reality or Scare Tactic?". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. July 13, 2011.

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• First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.

  Ed Markey

  Jobs, Community, Needs

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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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• 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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• My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all.

  Richard Dawkins

  Motivation, War, Religion

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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 think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Thinking, Keys

  "Former Vice President Dick Cheney on 'Hannity'". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. December 9, 2009.

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• We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.

  Dick Cheney

  Sky, People, Trying

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• Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.

  Eliot Engel

  Important, Way, Constitution

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• America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Hippie, Cities, America

  "Pelosi, Daschle Respond to Bush". Nancy Pelosi's official response to President Bush's 'State of the Union' address, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2004.

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• Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

  Salman Rushdie

  Airports, Terrorist, Airport Security

  "Satanic view that equates democracies and dictatorships" by Salman Rushdie, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2012.

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• In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

  Will Self

  Past, Order, Years

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• My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Towers, Saudi Arabia, Kingdoms

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Opportunity, Earthquakes, Warning

  "Martyrs in Paradise". Book by Terry Reese Downing, 2009.

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• With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

  Jay Leno

  Country, Fire, Bird

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• The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist

  Carl Levin

  Iraq, September 11, Enemy

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