David Hackworth Quotes

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

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.

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

We don’t intend to live with terrorism forever. We will do whatever is necessary …

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

In 2001, terrorism was fought in a completely different way.

The numbers of terrorists that we have caught coming - we actually don't catch them coming across the border. We usually catch them in some other context.

The fight against terrorism will not be over tomorrow or next month, or even next year. The fight will endure for years to come, and as the threat changes, so too must we adapt to these transformations.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.

We can't possibly fight all the terrorists in all the countries where they exist because we don't have the money or manpower to do so.

We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

We have our own home-grown terrorism, and to the extent that we can obliterate terrorism all over the world, then our own terrorism will be much easier to neutralize.

It's probably time to end the global war on terrorism.