Jacques Chirac Quotes

Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization, and this enemy is international terrorism associated with religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance.

Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.

Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed.

There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

Terrorists hate the ideas America has championed around the world. It is inevitable that people will wonder if there are intellectual connections with others who have turned to violence to attack international finance, globalization and the United States

Pakistan and its associates find it difficult to understand that there are no 'good terrorists and bad terrorists.'

Terrorism is perpetrated by individuals and cannot be blamed on any one religion, be it Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity.

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest of civilization, who have got a program. It's not blind violence. It's with a purpose. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want every westerner out of the Arab countries, Middle East and elsewhere.

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

Terrorists have hijacked our religion.

Terrorism is only a problem in failed states with significant Muslim populations.

Terrorism has no motherland and terrorists have no nationality.

The real threat comes from terrorism.

Terrorism is a persistent and evolving global menace. No country is immune.

Some media outlets refer to 'protesters' and 'militia members,' not 'terrorists,' even though armed antigovernment extremists seizing federal property and expressing a desire to kill and die is a textbook description of domestic terrorism.

We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against terrorism.

I think the terrorists are just idiots.

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

Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world.