Pamela Druckerman Quotes

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

I've been shot at on numerous occasions.

Head for jihad and have your guns ready.

He who points a gun kills.

Terrorize your enemy!

What is happening in my constituency is very unfortunate and frightening. People are being killed by terrorists on a daily basis. Churches are being burnt, and if people like me who is also a member of the House Committee on Army, alerted military authorities based on intelligence reports that my village would be under attack and nothing was done to secure the area, then it is unfortunate, because the ordinary people that live in volatile areas are no longer safe and protected by our security outfits.

Bad things usually don't happen by themselves in Iraq.

I will knock the hell out of ISIS.

No one received them [the coalition forces] with roses. They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets.

All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!

My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

All together, we know for many years that terror is the most dangerous thing for local, regional and international stability.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.