Monica Crowley Quotes

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

The only way to fight terrorism is to fight it, not to reward it…. When terror receives one victory, terror seeks other victories.

They may be rich, they may be powerful, they may have atom bombs, but Americans and British are no longer safe anywhere in the world…. They may perhaps be able to put Al-Qaeda out of commission, but that does not mean that there will not be other groups. They have been killing so-called terrorist all these years, but there'll simply be more and more terrorists

You cannot bomb extremism into submission

We have taken down almost every one of the ISIS people who killed, him. processed him or detained him. And we will get the rest even if it takes us another 50 years.

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.

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

I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies.

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.

We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.

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.

It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.

We'll follow terrorists everywhere. Should we catch them in a shithouse, we'll kill them in a shithouse.

We find them completely wrong. On the other hand, we try to dissuade them from involving themselves in terrorist attacks

It is not about a war against a country, or a war against a religion but rather about the struggle against terrorist violence. As such I do not exclude the use of repressive police and military measures.

The Republic will destroy terrorism.

Terrorism is the vanguard of a general revenge against the West's wealth.

If we are to rid ourselves of terrorism, we will have to genuinely believe that attempts to distinguish between 'good' and 'bad' terrorists are misleading.

Terrorism and the fight against extremism is our fight.

On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.

America roused to a righteous anger has always been a force for good. States that have been supporting if not Osama bin Laden, people like him need to feel pain. If we flatten part of Damascus or Tehran or whatever it takes, that is part of the solution.

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.

I believe when the country feels threatened it is important that we are seen to be working together to find an appropriate structure for dealing with terrorists in our midst.