Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

There is only one ‚retirement plan‘ for terrorists.

We’re at a point now where we’ve built AI tools to detect when terrorists are trying to spread content, and 99 percent of the terrorist content that we take down, our systems flag before any human sees them or flags them for us.

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

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

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

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.

Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic.

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

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

Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista’s tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.

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.

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.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

I think what’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn’t say it’s the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

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

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

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.

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

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

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

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States‘ response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.

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

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

Global energy security is a vital part of America’s national security.

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.

There’s no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

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.

Just take terrorism, for example. We have a team of more than 200 people working on counterterrorism. I mean, that’s pretty intense. That’s not like what people think about what Facebook is.

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.

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

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.

I don’t call up the press and say, ‚Look at me!‘

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.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

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

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

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

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.