Ray Davies Quotes

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

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.

I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.

Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

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

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

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

I think that in our society we use the word 'terrorism' a lot - individuals throw the word around a lot without carefully considering it.

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

The growing menace of violent extremism and outright barbarism is our common threat today.

It pains me to learn that things are even worse than is understood… A plot is forming to seize the Capitol on or before the 4th of March…

The attacks in New York represent a new, privatized form of violence, which has nothing in common with the classical concept of war and is something to which we must find answers

We know what causes terrorism. Terrorists cause terrorism.

Terrorism is a means/a tactic, not an ideological or defined physical enemy

Unless Gingrich and Dole and the Republicans say, ‘Am I inflaming a bunch of nuts?’, you know we're going to have some more events (like the Oklahoma City bombing). I am absolutely certain the harsher rhetoric of the Gingriches and the Doles … creates a climate of violence in America.

Israel is under a dual terrorist attack, from within and from without. And terrorism from within is always more dangerous than terrorism from without.

Violent extremism is going viral, but our response to it is moving at bureaucratic, sluggish speed.

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.

I am concerned about any form of violent extremism.

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.

They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists.