George W. Bush Quotes

I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.

The best way to avoid hostages being taken in the future is to devalue the hostages that exist.

Any action intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act

Telling families of hostages that the United States will not pay ransom is as tough as anything I do..

These are horrible choices. On the one hand if you don't pay the ransom, you are putting the lives of the hostages in almost certain danger. On the other hand, if you do pay the ransom, you are enabling and increasing the likelihood of the kind of behavior that caused the problem in the first place.

The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

9/11, the wars and terrorism have affected all of us in different ways: people who lost family on 9/11, the people who lost family in the wars and people who lost family in various terrorist attacks that have occurred since.

The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

Bottoms line: terrorists are always at work.

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.

We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.

I was at Ground Zero, and it was, to me, such a graphic illustration of what terrorism has done to our world.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Terrorism tramples upon any rights and freedoms and generates fear and hatred; it is an obstacle to efforts at improving our world.

Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.