Ted Koppel Quotes

Terrorism is what the weak use to increase their bargaining power against the strong.

The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit.

Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

That's the thing about terrorism - it works. Especially for the terrorists - they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.

International terrorists who pursue completely mad objectives such as establishing a world caliphate or something of the sort, are quite adept at disguising their real aims as a struggle for independence in Chechnya.

Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs -- social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him -- until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years.

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.

Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.

A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

Terrorism is nothing new. Lots of terrorist attacks are nothing new, but we pay a lot more attention to them today.

In Iraq we are fighting against men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons who are capable of any atrocity. They wear no uniform; they respect no laws of warfare or morality. They take innocent lives to create chaos for the cameras.

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

Terrorism is resorted to for practical reasons because there is no other tool available. And those who use terrorism, and then subsequently become the targets of terrorism, understand its power and how difficult it is to counter it. Not just militarily. But especially in terms of international perception.

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.