Raj Thackeray Quotes

The attacks on our police and the terrorism of our cities threaten our very way of life.

If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?

The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

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

I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner.

There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.

The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

I turned atheist in the '90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left.

Urbanization is the dominant demographic trend of our time.

Every day our nation grows a little darker from massive nonwhite immigration, high nonwhite birthrate and increasing racial miscegenation.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

… terrorism is a plague in our countries. It compounds our development problems.

The search for national security is today a source for urban insecurity.

Germany has become an important haven for terrorists.

The suicide bombings have increased. There's too many of them.

A Pakistan that falls apart, becomes a failed state, would be of extraordinary danger to Afghanistan and to America.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded.

[Saddam Hussein] is a threat because he is dealing with al-Qaeda. . . . A true threat facing our country is that an al-Qaeda-type network trained and armed by Saddam could attack America and not leave one fingerprint.

I think many people are not seeing the change. They're really upset with the current situation. We haven't seen a major American city go up like this in quite some time.

We are sitting on many powder kegs. Whether it's Ferguson, or St Louis, or like the other night, or Baltimore. Or different parts of Chicago.

What really terrifies Americans is the prospect that the Indian is very much alive, that the Indian is having nine babies in Guatemala, and that those nine babies are headed this way. This is one reason why Americans hold on so dearly to the myth of the dead Indian.

Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland as they did on 9/11, as they did from Boston to Orlando to San Bernardino. And all across Europe we've seen what happened in Paris and Nice. All over Europe it's happening. It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. In many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons and you understand that.