Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

I can’t explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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.

Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in the Mid-east, and hardening political positions that make Mid-east peace-building more remote by the day.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

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.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor. I’ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t going to work. Therapy isn’t going to cause terrorists to change their mind.

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we’re spending in Pakistan, we’re spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I’m sure.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It’s completely impossible. 2- It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.

I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.

Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people. The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

As strong as the United States is, we can’t deal with terrorism alone.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn’t threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

There is only one ‚retirement plan‘ for terrorists.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.