War On Terrorism Quotes - Page 3

• 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

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• The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.

  Asa Hutchinson

  War, Men, Iraq

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• This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

  Tom Ridge

  War, Terrorism, Periods

  "Americans urged to carry on despite terror alert". www.cnn.com. October 30, 2001.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• [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.

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• Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw? Qaddafi was the thug who came in from the cold, the one who (in the wake of Saddam's fall) renounced his nuclear program and was supposedly rehabilitated in the chancelleries of the West. He was a strong partner in the war on terrorism, according to U.S. diplomats. And what did Washington do? They overthrew him anyway.

  Mark Steyn

  Strong, War, Party

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• 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.

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• 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

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• The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H.W. Bush didn't unseat Saddam in 1991, there's been a longing among the extreme right in the United States to finish the job. The war on terrorism has given them that opportunity. Even though the logic is convoluted and fraudulent, it appears they are going to go ahead and finish the job.

  John Pilger

  Jobs, War, Opportunity

  Source: progressive.org

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• And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is extremely hard to define and we therefore have to have a deep thinking about it. And the reason it's hard to define is quite simple. It's hard to find a definition that includes what they do to us but excludes what we do to them. That's quite difficult. So it takes a global war on terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Simple, Thinking

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us] Central America, South Africa, the Middle East, all U.S.-backed terrorism. That's one of the reasons why it disappeared from history and why the standard line is that Bush 43 declared the war on terror. Actually he just repeated what Reagan had said 20 years earlier.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, America, Years

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• For anybody here who's very worried about domestic priorities, just consider we have created, with this war on terrorism, more fighters, more countries embroiled. They're learning new weapons. They're learning new techniques. They're coming here in social media. The lone wolf thing is expanding. And once that blows here, then forget about domestic priorities.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, War, Blow

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• In the war on terrorism, the immigrant is often the scapegoat.

  Andrew Lam

  War, Terrorism, Scapegoat

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• I think it's very hard to fight the war on terrorism if we're in retreat.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  "Matt Lauer Urges Bush to Trash Trump on Political Division, Media Attacks" by Kyle Drennen, www.newsbusters.org. February 27, 2017.

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• On 9-11, we discovered that we cannot escape from the world. To me personally, this was a life-changing experience, and I realized, as did all Americans, in a way that is impossible to describe, that we were not protected by the two oceans. It was necessary to eliminate threats before they showed up on our doorstep. I agree that we should not be getting caught up in far away wars. But I believe Iraq was central to our war on terrorism.

  George W. Bush

  War, Believe, Ocean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Unfortunately, the United States and a few other governments have used the war on terrorism as a way of violating human rights. I am referring to the case of the Guantánamo Bay prisoners. This violation of the rights of prisoners has been so unbelievable that the United Nations has reminded the United States repeatedly that the treatment of prisoners should take place according to the preestablished conventions of the United Nations.

  Shirin Ebadi

  War, Rights, Government

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

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• A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism.

  Ben Nelson

  War, Winning, Iraq

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• I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.

  Lindsey Graham

  Military, War, Thinking

  "Sen. Lindsey Graham talks Hagel, Brennan nominations; Sen. Rand Paul on the Obama agenda, Republican policy". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2013.

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• There is no war on terrorism; it is the great game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.

  John Pilger

  War, Games, Differences

  "The great charade". www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2002.

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• Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism.

  Paul Ryan

  Military, War, America

  "Ryan Statement on Death of Terrorist al-Zarqawi". paulryan.house.gov. June 08, 2006.

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• If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.

  Martin Firrell

  War, Giving, Democracy

  "Art in a Word". Qoob TV, July 22, 2008.

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• Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?

  Terry Jones

  Country, War, Oxford

  "Powell speaks with forked tongue" by Terry Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2003.

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• Bush and his commanders in the war on terrorism are willing to waste non-terrorists to kill terrorists. Right or wrong, that is not caring about the dignity of every life.

  David Corn

  War, Caring, Waste

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