Richard N. Haass Quotes

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

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

The real threat comes from terrorism.

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.

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

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

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

Terrorism often finds a home in states mired in civil war …

Terrorism is a strategy of provocation.

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

What's the definition of terrorism? It's to achieve an objective through the use of force and fear. These are just nasty, evil, disgusting human beings who disrespect human life.

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

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

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.

Bottoms line: terrorists are always at work.

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.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

I've always refused to play terrorists.

I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.

Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.

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