Barack Obama Quotes

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundations of America.

Where terrorists offer injustice, disorder and destruction, the United States and its allies stand for freedom, fairness, equality, hope, and opportunity.

The willingness to condone some form of interrogational coercion, including outright torture in particular extreme circumstances is directly related … to the degree that one takes seriously the threat that terrorists pose to entire cities.

Those are the two issues: Protecting the homeland and stopping the war and going after ISIS in a way that ends the terrorism.

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.

P of what al Qaeda tries to do, and terrorists, is disrupt. Americans should live their lives just as they have every day, but just be aware.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

The American people do not want to be blown up. Anything that prevents the American people from being blown up is all right with the American people.

We have not yet, as a nation, made a generation-long commitment to this terrorist threat.

The best thing we did with the Patriot Act was to sunset it. Almost 800 foreign nationals, immigrants, mostly Arab-Americans or people who looked like Arab-Americans, were arrested, put in jail, held without charges, no notification for their families and no right to counsel. That's un-American and I'll fight to end that. If we fight the terrorists who attacked us because of our liberties by compromising our liberties, shame on us.

We will pursue terrorists everywhere. At an airport – okay, at an airport. If we catch them in a lavatory, in an outhouse, we will take them out there with their pants down.

We are much safer in the United States, but not yet safe.

Fighting terrorism cannot allow one to be intimidated….We must take this fight to the terrorists.

To the American people … nine years after 9/11, nine years of spending, and nine years of beefing up security you are still unsafe even in the holiest and most sacred of days to you, Christmas Day….

Your biggest threat is bin Laden!

The counterterrorism strategy known as CONTEST aimed to reduce the risk to the UK and its interests overseas from terrorism, so that people can go about their lives freely and with confidence.

For the FBI and for the United States, the war on terrorism is a complex and perplexing issue. It is as complex and perplexing as any issue we have ever faced.

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

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

Our values and way of life will prevail - terrorism will not.

We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas.