Quotes About Terrorism In America

#1. I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.

Nelson DeMille

#2. I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing. When homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid.

Bill Maher

#3. America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.

Bill Shuster

#4. [ ... ] I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens so many people so far away, as America.

Mohsin Hamid

#5. Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism.

Paul Ryan

#6. The question is, how do we keep America safe from terrorism? [Donald]Trump says we ought to close that Internet thing. The question really is, what does he mean by that? Like they do in North Korea? Like they do in China?

Rand Paul

#7. Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#8. 'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

Dinesh D'Souza

#9. For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.

Barack Obama

#10. All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.

Ron Suskind

#11. We are seeing with great grief that America remains quiet as Turkey struggles against terrorism. Because there were promises given to us, and they need to be kept. If not, we can take care of our own business.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#12. At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.

Donald Evans

#13. Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason.

Glenn Greenwald

#14. This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

Tony Blair

#15. There is a proliferation of terrorism as a result of the war in Iraq. What America has created is a den for terrorists to breed in Iraq as a result of the war and to ship their ideologies and their fears and their capabilities around the world, not just in the Middle East, but in other continents.

David E. Bonior

#16. I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come
Bombing of the Twin Towers
From Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles

Sara Niles

#17. Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria.

Howard Zinn

#18. Israel has no better friend that America. And America has not better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy. We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#19. The racial terrorism of lynchings in many ways created the modern death penalty. America's embrace of speedy executions was, in part, an attempt to redirect the violent energies of lynching while ensuring white southerners that Black men would still pay the ultimate price.

Bryan Stevenson

#20. The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#21. In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

William J. Clinton

#22. I am against all kinds of oppression. Poverty, Sexism, racism, terrorism, classicism, imperialism, heterosexism, Cisgenderism, colorism, Ableism, and Nativism. Because it hinder human progression.

Henry Johnson Jr

#23. The Republican candidates clashed on terrorism, immigration and foreign policy in their fifth debate.They all said President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton have not kept America safe.

Renee Montagne

#24. America has the power, but not the will to fight terrorism. The terrorists have the will, but not the power to fight America, but all that could change with time.

Isser Harel

#25. We believe America is practicing all kinds of terrorism against Libya. Even the accusation that we are involved in terrorism is in itself an act of terrorism.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#26. They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.

John Boehner

#27. In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

Lupe Fiasco

#28. I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire couldn't win, the Soviet Union couldn't win. That's stupid. It's a waste of resources; a waste of America's best and brightest.

Kurt Schrader

#29. Street Crime is the only logical response to America's drug policy just as terrorism is the only logical response to America's foreign policy

Tom Robbins

#30. During our meetings in Peshawar, Abdul Haq...asked me why the United States does not pay attention to terrorism. He compared America to a huge elephant: "One hundred people push on it and it doesn't blink, but when it decides to move, it lumbers forward and crushes everything.

Peter Tomsen

#31. Only Americans can hurt America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#32. America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.

Dennis Kucinich

#33. A state rep in Oklahoma gave a horrific speech where she felt the homosexual agenda was a greater threat to America than terrorism. People like this - there's not hate in their hearts. They believe what they believe because of the book that they prescribe to. You can't argue with these people.

Leslie Jordan

#34. The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.

John Ashcroft

#35. If he is terrorising the terrorists, if he is terrorising America the terrorist [ ... ] I am with him. Every Muslim should be a terrorist.

Zakir Naik

#36. If America has the right to target Osama bin Laden, or terrorists, of course Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism.

Alan Dershowitz

#37. In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

Jon Meacham

#38. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.

Jeremiah Wright

#39. America was staggeringly unobservant even twelve years into the Dark Age of Terrorism. If you see something, say something was a hell of a slogan, but first you had to see something.

Stephen King

#40. We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.

Randy Neugebauer

#41. Another problem with the official definitions of terror is that it follows from them that the US is a leading terrorist state.

Noam Chomsky

#42. The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.

Richard Reeves