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?

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.

There is only one ‚retirement plan‘ for terrorists.

I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

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

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.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

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

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.

If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

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

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that’s international terror, and we can go on and on.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway.

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

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

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

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

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

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization – that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

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.

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

Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States.

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

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

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.

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

Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems.

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.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They’re trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

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

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.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.