John Avlon Quotes

Terrorism is an immediate problem that people are very concerned about, and I am as concerned about that as anyone else. But it isn't an either or situation.

Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

People are becoming more accustomed to terrorism.

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

9/11 was a gamechanger in so many terrible ways, not just for the United States and for our own national security apparatus but for the whole world. And those attacks blew apart any notion of separation between foreign and domestic threats, any notion that such attacks only happen to other people in other countries.

Our national security is in a place where even my kids are concerned about things like ISIS when they hear about terrorist attacks on American soil.

There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.

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.

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.

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

I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.

The reality is that we can no longer sleep soundly at night thinking that if we keep the terrorists 'out there,' we are safe inside our homes and offices. That illusion is gone.

There's no national strategy to deal with combating terrorism and foreign fighters.

I think, in the wake of Sept. 11, it's important for the American public to understand that to the extent that there are individuals within the United States who would undertake terrorist attacks, that we are doing something to address that.

We need to eradicate these terrorist groups, wherever they are. If we failed to do it, we are just waiting for the next.

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

The point is the country has got serious problems dealing with terrorism both domestic and international.

Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.

Everyone is now a potential terrorist.

There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told.

(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.

We have had a lot of problems where you look at San Bernardino, you look at Orlando, you look at the World Trade Center, you look at so many different things.

The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us, they were a wake-up call as to what type of lunatics we are dealing with. And sleepwalking our way back into ill-sorted, dewy-eyed people personal politics is the last thing we need to set us up for the fight ahead. Come on you liberals, don't give me the morbid pleasure of saying, 'I told you so' again.