Terrorist Quotes

You cannot defend against terrorists by hunkering down, ... You simply must go after them. That is the only proper defense is an offense. - Donald Rumsfeld

You can call it the watch list, you can call it the select list, you can call it the no-fly list. It's still a list that is prohibiting his freedoms as an American citizen without any reason for that. He is not a fugitive, he is not a terrorist. And yet, he's on a list that he doesn't belong. That shouldn't happen in America. This is not the way we live our lives. - Donna Mitchell

You call them rebels, ... I call them by their names: They are killers, they are convicted killers, they are terrorists. - Wolf Blitzer

Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home. - Kenny Marchant

Yet another example of terrorists' cynical and callous disregard for human life. On behalf of the British government, I would like to offer the people of India my support and deepest sympathy. - Jack Straw

Yesterday's attacks by the enemies of Afghanistan are against Islam and indicate that killing of Muslims is the terrorists' main objective. - Hamid Karzai

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. - Juan Williams

Yes, you have some have some complainers in the Congress, but we voted to send our soldiers to this effort. Nobody else authorized you to go; we voted to support it... And I would also note that terrorists aren't happy with you either. - Jeff Sessions

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war. - Marsha Blackburn