Tedros Adhanom Quotes

Al Qaeda and ISIS may have global aspirations, but their ability to penetrate a society is strongly influenced by local conditions.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

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.

No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

The War on Terror is the only war we have ever been involved with in which our enemy did not want the war to end…. Terrorists do not want to defeat us in the usual sense; they want us to become more like them.

The future of Saudi society will not be secure as long as it refuses to confront its own extremist elements.

Terrorism is only a problem in failed states with significant Muslim populations.

Muslim nations provide recruits for fundamentalism, terrorism, insurgency, and migration.

The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.

We can put a stake through the heart of Islamic State as an army. We can put a stake through the heart of its leaders. You can take away its territory. But you can't put a stake through the heart of the ideas, of the ideology, that sadly, tragically, still has some attraction for some small numbers in the Islamic faith.

Pakistan and its associates find it difficult to understand that there are no 'good terrorists and bad terrorists.'

When mainstream Muslims defeat the Islamic State, that lessens the ability of the Islamic State to recruit and fund-raise.

We need to keep an eye on influences from the Middle East or, let's say, indigenous groups, that might be involved in terrorism.

What is happening in the Sahel for the past several months is that terrorists have structured themselves, have installed themselves. It's not simply a menace for west Africa.

'Terrorism' itself is not an objective term or legitimate object of study, but was conceived of as a highly politicized instrument and has been used that way ever since.

The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.

Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.

I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.

Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield.

Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.