George Schultz Quotes

To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.

We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.

Fighting terrorism cannot allow one to be intimidated….We must take this fight to the terrorists.

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

Elected president of the Republic, I would immediately, and with no hesitation, carry out the battle plan against Islamist terrorism and against judicial laxity.

For the FBI and for the United States, the war on terrorism is a complex and perplexing issue. It is as complex and perplexing as any issue we have ever faced.

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

We are a country that met successes in the fight against terrorism.

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

We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life.

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

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.

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.

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

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.

The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the opportunity and the means, they will take American lives.

The only way to fight terrorism is to fight it, not to reward it…. When terror receives one victory, terror seeks other victories.

We will pursue terrorists everywhere. At an airport – okay, at an airport. If we catch them in a lavatory, in an outhouse, we will take them out there with their pants down.

We have to make sure we control who enters our country. And we have to sustain and increase our efforts to fight the terrorists at their source, both on the ground and in the battle for hearts and minds.

Those are the two issues: Protecting the homeland and stopping the war and going after ISIS in a way that ends the terrorism.

I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.

In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.