War On Terrorism Quotes - Page 2

• [The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is chosen and not commanded.

  John Ashcroft

  Religious, War, Choices

  "The gospel according to John (Ashcroft)" by Rob Morse, www.sfgate.com. February 22, 2002.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is the rare - maybe even nonexistent - politician who will admit this, but number one on the politicians to-do list is always to get reelected. Nothing else comes close. The economy, the stock market, the war on terrorism ... NOTHING comes ahead of getting reelected. Staying in power is job number one.

  Neal Boortz

  Jobs, War, Numbers

  6 Copy quote

• The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.

  Ron Paul

  Honesty, War, Order

  16 Copy quote

• Just as Hitler used the Reichstag burning, the U.S. government now uses the so-called two wars, the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism, to fuel fear in the population and establish a police security state.

  Ralph Metzner

  War, Government, Two

  15 Copy quote

• Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

  Jim Cooper

  Leadership, Strong, War

  4 Copy quote

• First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Jobs, War, Approval Rating

  8 Copy quote

• Ukraine has been a strong partner to the United States on international initiatives and a committed ally in fighting the War on Terrorism.

  Vito Fossella

  Strong, War, Fighting

  57 Copy quote

• As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Long, Enemy

  7 Copy quote

• Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us, in the administration, that he thought the war on terrorism was moving in the wrong direction and he chose not to.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Moving, Opportunity

  "The Wolf Blitzer Reports Show", www.cnn.com. March 22, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• This is an issue just like 9/11. We didn’t decide we wanted to fight the war on terrorism because we wanted to. It was brought to us. And if not now, when? When the supreme courts in all the other states have succumbed to the Massachusetts version of the law?

  Rick Santorum

  War, Fighting, Law

  "10 Outrageous Things Rick Santorum Has Said". The Morning Call, www.thedailybeast.com. February 20, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

  Craig L. Thomas

  War, Home, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  War, Successful, Thinking

  "Transcript: Lawrence Eagleburger on FNS". Interview With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2002.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are together.

  Paul Cellucci

  War, Giving, People

  4 Copy quote

• We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.

  Randy Neugebauer

  War, Fighting, America

  4 Copy quote

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

  Zach Wamp

  War, Energy, Terrorism

  4 Copy quote

• Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.

  Hugh Shelton

  War, Hands, Nuclear

  8 Copy quote

• But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.

  Brent Scowcroft

  War, Iraq, Risk

  Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft (2009). “America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy”, p.38, Basic Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

  Jim Ryun

  War, Yesterday, House

  85 Copy quote

• It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq.

  John Yoo

  War, Iraq, Differences

  85 Copy quote

• No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.

  Michael C. Burgess

  War, Looks, Devastation

  9 Copy quote

• As long as there is a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.

  John McCain

  War, Long, Working Together

  14 Copy quote

• The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

  Mac Thornberry

  War, Challenges, Trying

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

  Timothy J. Russert

  War, Cutting, Iraq

  6 Copy quote