War On Terror Quotes - Page 3

• I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

  Charles Schumer

  Regret, War, Believe

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• However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

  Randy Neugebauer

  War, Men, Community

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• They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

  John Boehner

  Real, War, Choices

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• Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.

  Adam Schiff

  War, Struggle, Winning

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• The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.

  Hamid Karzai

  War, Believe, Political

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• The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror.

  Doc Hastings

  War, Iraq, Easy

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• Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

  Dennis Hastert

  Strong, War, Winning

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• You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

  Robert Harris

  War, Winning, Human Nature

  "'A Writer Close to the Power Elite': Interview With Robert Harris". Interview with Christina Patterson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

  Terry Eagleton

  War, Enemy, Sides

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• From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Perspective, People

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2003.

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• Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

  George W. Bush

  War, Winning, Iraq

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror... so today I vetoed it.

  George W. Bush

  War, Tools, Bills

  "Bush vetoes bill banning waterboarding". www.nbcnews.com. March 8, 2008.

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• Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

  Cory Doctorow

  War, Winning, Surveillance

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• The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.

  Roger Mahony

  War, Oil, Rising

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• The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  War, Keys, Mind

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• The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

  Hamid Karzai

  War, States, Worst

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• I think we should be organized in something called an Alliance Against Nuclear Terrorism. In the same way that NATO was the great alliance of the Cold War and served a great purpose then, we need now, in the war on terrorism, a new alliance, the mission of which would be to minimize the risk of nuclear terrorist attacks, and the members would agree to sign on to the gold standard.

  Graham T. Allison

  War, Thinking, Risk

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  War, America, Would Be

  "Eyeing the Enemy". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. January 16, 2007.

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• We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.

  Zach Wamp

  War, Energy, Terrorism

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• As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.

  Chris Van Hollen

  War, Tools, Calling

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• Critics have stepped up their attacks on the President for authorizing the National Security Agency to listen to international communications of known al Qaeda members or affiliated terrorists during a time of war. The American people expect their leaders to stay a step ahead of the enemy, and the National Security Agency authorization is a critical tool in the War on Terror that saves lives and protects civil liberties at the same time.

  Scott McClellan

  War, Communication, Agency

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• The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.

  Mike Pence

  Morning, War, Iraq

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• Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Military, War, Issues

  "Seven questions for Walter Russell Mead". The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. January 16, 2010.

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• Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.

  Linda Chavez

  War, Iraq, Rights

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• Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror, but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means. It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Mean, Doubt

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