Bill Clinton Quotes

Terror cannot be finished by one war.

If the United States were attacked by rockets from one of our neighboring countries, we would be a lot tougher on them than Israel has been on the Palestinians. When we were attacked, we sent an army abroad and took over Afghanistan from the Taliban.

The American people are not—I repeat—not going to tolerate intimidation, terror, and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. We are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes, and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich.

They've hit us and we've got to hit back hard, and I'm not just talking about the terrorists.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

We'll follow terrorists everywhere. Should we catch them in a shithouse, we'll kill them in a shithouse.

We told the Taliban in no uncertain terms that if this happened, it’s their ass. No difference between the Taliban and al Qaeda now. They both go down.

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

That was a declaration of war

Are we in a state of war against terrorism, or does that require a declaration in order for us to fight.

Terrorize your enemy!

We can’t always pick and choose which conflicts were going to get into.

America roused to a righteous anger has always been a force for good. States that have been supporting if not Osama bin Laden, people like him need to feel pain. If we flatten part of Damascus or Tehran or whatever it takes, that is part of the solution.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

Blowing terrorists to smithereens is gratifying.

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.