George W. Bush Quotes

In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.

As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress.

ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using.

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

This [terrorists attacks on 9/11] was part of nothing. It was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who have hijacked Islam for their own purposes. It's important not to fall into that trap and to try to respond with a metaphysical retaliation of some sort.

I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us -more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet communists we fought during the long Cold War.

If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?

It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.

ISIL's widespread reach through the Internet and social media is most concerning, as the group has proven dangerously competent at employing such tools for its nefarious strategy. ISIL uses high-quality, traditional media platforms as well as widespread social media campaigns to propagate its extremist ideology.

Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.

We know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who are tied directly to the top leadership of al Qaeda central, including a man who was formerly Osama bin Laden's secretary.

As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.

But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

Of course, Islamist terrorists must be captured or killed and their networks disrupted. But to stop their movement’s growth, their ideology must also be undermined.

I can in one week assemble five hundred faithful ready to throw themselves into suicide operations. No frontier will stop them.

Now we have a generational threat struggle called Islamist extremism.

ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.

With awareness and a social movement against extremism, we can prevent our children from becoming terrorists.

Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.

The terrorists may want to try and legitimize their violence by cynically appealing to Islamic motifs or doctrines, but there is no reason the rest of us should help them do it.

Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.

Here's the reality: There is always a credible threat, and terror can strike at any time, anywhere, especially as lone wolf attacks backed up by Islamic ideology become more prevalent.