Jim Sensenbrenner Quotes

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.

To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.

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

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

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people.

They may be rich, they may be powerful, they may have atom bombs, but Americans and British are no longer safe anywhere in the world…. They may perhaps be able to put Al-Qaeda out of commission, but that does not mean that there will not be other groups. They have been killing so-called terrorist all these years, but there'll simply be more and more terrorists

For the FBI and for the United States, the war on terrorism is a complex and perplexing issue. It is as complex and perplexing as any issue we have ever faced.

I wouldn't call it America's war on terror. Terrorism is our own fight as well, and if it coincides with the American agenda or the international agenda, well, that's fine.

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

Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

I know the pain of having to deal with terrorism. And that's why, after 9-11, I was one of the first to join the international coalition to fight terrorism.

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.

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

To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

It's probably time to end the global war on terrorism.