Otto Schily Quotes

We have not yet, as a nation, made a generation-long commitment to this terrorist threat.

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.

Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home.

We cannot allow Afghanistan to become again a haven for terrorists who inspire, plan and provide support for attacks like those of 11 September 2001, of 7 July 2005 in London, and more.

We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

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

The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

That's driven by any number of factors, the most prominent of which have been the combat experience of two major campaigns - one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq - and the ongoing demands of the global war on terrorism.

Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before.

If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

The war on terror is a struggle that will last for generations.

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

This War on Terror has no boundaries …. We have to get them wherever they are.

Osama bin Laden is gone. The war in Iraq is over. Afghanistan is coming to a close.

The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat from radical Islamist terrorists as a whole.

Whole nation is fighting against the terrorists, and this struggle will continue till the complete elimination of terrorists.

Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda.

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.

Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

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

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