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.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

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.

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

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

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

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

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.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

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.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

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

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

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.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

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

History, a distillation of rumour.

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.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

Study men, not historians.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.