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

  Robert Mueller

  Eclipse, Cyber, Threat

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Hillary Clinton and the Kissinger Wing of the Democratic Party" by Pierre Guerlain, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2016.

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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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• Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.

  George W. Bush

  Airplane, Sadness, Fire Burning

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

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• I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals and terrorists to trump the rights of the people of Britain to live in security and peace.

  David Cameron

  Believe, Rights, People

  "Balancing freedom and security - a modern British Bill of Rights". www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2006.

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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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• 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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• There can only be one answer to this hideous act of jihad against the staff of Charlie Hebdo. It is the obligation of the Western media and Western leaders, religious and lay, to protect the most basic rights of freedom of expression, whether in satire on any other form. The West must not appease, it must not be silenced. We must send a united message to the terrorists: Your violence cannot destroy our soul.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Religious, Media, Expression

  "How to Respond to Islamist Kalashnikovs in the Heart of Paris" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2015.

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• The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

  Brendan Behan

  Peace, War, Novelists

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• 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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