Jessica Stern Quotes

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.

Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.

Terrorism springs from sources other than the form of government of a state. There is no reason to believe that a more democratic Arab world will, simply by virtue of being more democratic, generate fewer terrorists.

The War on Terror is the only war we have ever been involved with in which our enemy did not want the war to end…. Terrorists do not want to defeat us in the usual sense; they want us to become more like them.

I think people have turned terrorists into these larger-than-life devils and so are unable to write about them in the obvious way, which is as human, petty, bumbling.

In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

Abbas is on his way to becoming a professor of terrorism. After denying the Holocaust in his doctoral thesis, he now claims that Hamas is not a terrorist organization.

We can't be politically correct - right or left - in the war on terrorism. Period.

We know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who are tied directly to the top leadership of al Qaeda central, including a man who was formerly Osama bin Laden's secretary.

Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another. What I am saying is that the circumstances that push certain individuals over the edge, to become terrorists, are generally very, very similar.

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.

Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.

Politicization led to an intelligence output that obscured understanding of al Qaeda’s sources of strength and support.

It’s the confrontation with modernity that produces terrorism.

The entire world is the front line for terrorism.

The terrorists of today are not wild-eyed, illiterate fanatics who merely obey the orders of their evil leaders. They are educated, well-off, normal people with wives and families to love and look after. We cannot know they are terrorists until they have committed their horrible crimes.

We know what causes terrorism. Terrorists cause terrorism.

Terrorist groups always want to believe that they represent a general aggrieved group far larger than they really do.

Terrorists have hijacked our religion.

American jihadists are generally motivated by a mix of factors, including dislike of U.S. foreign policy in the Muslim world.

Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.

I think that a lot of terrorists have been middle class and, more surprisingly, many of them have been people who were not directly affected by the things they're angry about.

Terrorists are as torn as anyone else.