Joe E. Lewis Quotes

I like to throw bombs.

A little bomb like that can make us all disappear

A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.

The bomb lives only as it is falling.

In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed.

They've spread like cancer. ISIS has spread like cancer.

Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair

[9/11] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it.

If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.

I don't want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.

We are awaiting aggression by Israel and any supporters of Israel. We will make it a decisive battle and get rid of Israel once and for all... This is the dream of every Arab.

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

Arson is the single most fundamental form of terrorism.It's the simplest terrorist tactic.

What we will not wait for is that particular nexus of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction that is extremism, and the technology to come together in a way that is harmful to the United States.

I've been going up and bombing everywhere. It's great. I love it. It's hilarious.

For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

I think it's very instructive to look at a man like Ramsey Ahmad Yousef, who almost brought down the World Trade Center in 1993. He's short some fingers, his body is scarred, he's missing an eye - because he was practicing and not getting it right. But eventually they get it right.

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

It [9/11] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work here, which refused to have any interest in dialogue and political organization and persuasion. This was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it.

There is a worry about a bomb being implanted in a human being and placed on an airplane. So, I think there is a lot to worry about.

Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.

Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism upon the world.