Bulent Ecevit Quotes

Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.

Britain's anti-terror laws are an affront to democracy.

Sacrificing British liberties will not protect us. It just plays into the hands of the terrorists. The justice system is not the problem. It is part of the solution. We can fight terror - and defend freedom.

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.

Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.

True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life.

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.

The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear.

We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect the civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.

Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

The campaign against terrorism is going to be global and it's going to be long and there's reason to expect there will be difficulties along the way.

People should think of the war on terror as being like the war on crime--- a struggle in which success is measured not by final victory but by declines in incidence and seriousness of attacks.

No particular Government policy decision, or even an overall policy stance, which we could change in order somehow to remove our society from the Al-Qaeda firing line. Its nihilism means that our societies would cease to be a target only if we were to renounce all the values of freedom and liberty that we have fought to extend over so many years. Our only answer to this threat must be to contest and then to defeat it

When it comes to terrorism, the only path to safety is the path to action.

Democracies cannot be intimidated by terrorism.

… the war on terrorism will serve as the justification for restraints on civil liberties.

People must accept that their governments cannot guarantee absolute safety. A measure of insecurity is the price of liberty and democracy. It’s a price worth paying.

I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.

In a democracy there will always be a tension between security and privacy.

Italy remains deeply engaged in the global fight against terrorism as well as on domestic programmes against radicalisation.

The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom.