- Canada
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorism Quotes
Security, policy, and the many faces of terrorism.
These quotes address terrorism as a real policy challenge - securing an Olympic Games amid separatism and extremism, and energy legislation tied to the broader War on Terrorism. See Fighting quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.
- Jail
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.
- Fragment
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be a tragedy if the remarkable international coalition against terrorism, successfully marshalled in the aftermath of 11 September, were to fragment over a unilateral U.S. strike against Baghdad.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way to defeat international terrorism is through international cooperation based on international law, clear intelligence, and a measured and appropriate military response.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.
- Ourselves
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.
- Risks
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- Nov 07, 2020