George W. Bush Quotes

We face now an era where we're going to be fighting the terrorist threat. I mean, that's simply a reality we are going to have to address that one.

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

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

I believe when the country feels threatened it is important that we are seen to be working together to find an appropriate structure for dealing with terrorists in our midst.

It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children.

We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas so we never have to fight it here at home.

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

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.

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.

Terrorist infiltration should be resisted not at the national level, but at the international policies level.

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.

Let there be no doubt: we will be tough on terror wherever it strikes.

At any time, somebody can blow themselves up and take Americans with them. They can blow up an airplane; they can crash an airplane. That's something we have to worry about every day - we spend 40 billion dollars yearly on homeland security. That has nothing to do with Crusades or any of that other nonsense.

(Terrorists) are planning to disrupt our democratic process. It's scary I know, but we're not going to let al Qaeda tell us what to do. In fact, our government has decided that if al Qaeda attempts to disrupt our democratic process, we are going to respond by disrupting it first.

Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.

I vowed to our countrymen that I would do everything I could to protect the American people... That's why I said to Afghanistan: If you harbor a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorist.

I share the Presidents commitment to fighting and winning the war on terrorism.

To protect us from terrorism, we must have the best, absolutely the best gathering of intelligence anywhere in the world.

There will be no going back to the era before September the 11th, 2001 - to false comfort in a dangerous world.

We knew that al-Qaida was a threat to our country. We knew that the Clinton administration understood this and was working against al-Qaida We did not ignore al-Qaida. We spent a lot of our time thinking about terrorism, what should we do about it.