Keir Starmer Quotes

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.

I refuse to allow human rights to become a slogan to protect terrorists.

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.

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

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.

You don’t have enough evidence to convict them in a court of law. On the other hand, they can kill you….It’s inherently a very difficult problem. At the end of the day the United States must be true to its own values.

The president has already decided that terrorists do not receive Geneva Convention protections. You cannot question his decision.

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.

If I was in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.

I know that we will be judged in history by not only how we disrupt terrorism but how we protect the civil liberties and constitutional rights of all Americans, even Americans who don't wish us well. We must do all these things exceptionally well.

Turkey has, of course, the right to protect itself against terrorism, against attacks, but I expect it to be done in a way which is in accordance with the rule of law, democratic values. And that is something I have expressed several times in meetings with the Turkish leaders.

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

To me, terrorists should not be able to hide behind their passports and their citizenship, and that includes U.S. citizens, whether they are overseas or whether they are here in the United States. What we need to do is to apply the appropriate tool and the appropriate response.

I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.

I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission.

The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

We can't be politically correct - right or left - in the war on terrorism. Period.

Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.

The only message that terrorists need to get is that they're going to be beaten.

Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?