Terrorism
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- The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers. The biggest thing they fear is that a bomb goes off and it can be traced to something they did or didn’t do, an action they did or didn’t support. They all fear being accused of not doing enough to keep the citizenry safe.
- To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion.
- There really is no vacation from the world in which we live.
- We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.
- I have no doubt if I put out the Pentagon Papers in every detail, same as before, I would now be called a terrorist.
- We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.
- I am determined to defeat our enemies. But victory and security will not come easily. And they won’t come at all if we adhere to a rigid ideology, adopt a narrow methodology, or abandon our most effective terror-fighting weapon our Article Three court system.
- Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.