Al Franken Quotes

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.

The rise of ISIS has exposed the darkest side of humanity - at times manifesting their violent ideology at our very doorsteps.

When an Indian meets a terrorist, we condemn this.

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

You're always going to have terrorism.

Terrorists

Terrorism is the enemy of all free people…

Some people are afraid that there will be an European “us verses them” dichotomy with the Moslems. There already is an “us verses them” dichotomy. What else can you call it when “them” is killing “us.”

Terrorism is a strategy of provocation.

Extremism and terrorism are based on lack of hope and an ideology that takes advantage of that.

We all condemn terrorism.

Terrorism must never be tolerated for any reason and we resolutely condemn it.

History proves that those who seed extremist ideologies reap a bitter harvest.

Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists.

The terrorists know that the outcome will leave them emboldened or defeated. So they are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to take.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

All terrorism is theater.

I think that anybody can become a terrorist. That's my point of view. But, not everybody can actually kill. In order to reach that level, you have to be deeply convinced.

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

'9/11' came out of a swamp of hatred created by us.

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.