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

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

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

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

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

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

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

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

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

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.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Morality is contraband in war.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

There is only one ‚retirement plan‘ for terrorists.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

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.

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran’s nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

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

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

War settles nothing.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there’s no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

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.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

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.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

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.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

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.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

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.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

In time of war the laws are silent.

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

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

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

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

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

A siege is an act of war.

War is a contagion.

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

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.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

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.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.