Lewis Black Quotes

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit.

I think our nation's at war with radical Islam. The primary goal of these groups is to attack our nation. Washington's a prime target.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

The Middle East conflict has become the locus of the final war between Muslims and the West

Now that Washington once again has a tangible adversary -- variously described as ‘freedom-hating terrorists,’ ‘Salafist jihadis,’ or ‘Islamofascists’ -- U.S. leaders have convinced the American public that foreign policy is an ‘us-versus-them’ contact sport in which the primary tactics are military and coercive

Those are the two issues: Protecting the homeland and stopping the war and going after ISIS in a way that ends the terrorism.

If the war on terror is endless, you could forget about democracy.

I think there are a number of issues that we should be addressing. I have put forth a plan to defeat ISIS.

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

I will knock the hell out of ISIS.

I share the Presidents commitment to fighting and winning the war on terrorism.

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.

For anybody here who's very worried about domestic priorities, just consider we have created, with this war on terrorism, more fighters, more countries embroiled. They're learning new weapons. They're learning new techniques. They're coming here in social media. The lone wolf thing is expanding. And once that blows here, then forget about domestic priorities.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

They [terrorists] have declared war on us and we need to have a serious strategy to destroy ISIS.

We've got to keep fighting, and I will defeat ISIS.

Our country since its inception has been at war, every 15 or 20 years. But the war that we are fighting against radical Islamist jihadists is one that we must win. Our very existence is dependent upon that.

We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

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.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.