Anders Fogh Rasmussen Quotes

Staying in a very public fight with the U.S. is exactly what Al Qaeda wants.

We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

I do think - I'm sure I'm the lone voice in saying this - that Iran deserves to be annihilated. I think they're lunatics. I think they're evil.

Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas. They're branches of the same tree. People who wantonly rocket our cities and want to conduct mass killings. And when they can, they murder children, teenagers, shoot them in the head. Throw people from the sixth floor, their own people. ... They're the enemies of peace, they're the enemies of Israel, they're the enemies of all civilized countries. And I believe they're the enemies of the Palestinians themselves.

All terrorism is theater.

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

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

I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.

I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.

The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish their own objectives that have nothing to do whatsoever with the interests of Chechnya.

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

The dividing line for Yisrael Beiteinu is who supports terror and who fights terror.

There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.

Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.

The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them.

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.

I'm not a politician, but ISIS is a problem, and this matter should be solved very quickly. This will affect existing production, it will affect investment, it will affect the behaviour of people. It will affect the area tremendously.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

It’s the confrontation with modernity that produces terrorism.

Terrorists aren’t states; they are martyrs with no address.

The success of terrorism anywhere breeds terrorism everywhere.

Terrorism is a means/a tactic, not an ideological or defined physical enemy

The Iranians are not part of the “axis of Evil”. They are part of the axis of Medieval.

… every international bloc, every State or indeed every community has enemies and opponents that seek to eliminate it, and, as the conflict becomes violent, each party tries to undermine the reputation of the other by attributing to it repulsive epithets, such as "anarchist", "criminal", "outlaw", "inhuman", "terrorist", and the like.