Richard N. Haass Quotes

The threat from terrorists - from extreme ideologies - needs to be challenged head-on.

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

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

I am concerned about any form of violent extremism.

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.

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.

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

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

Homegrown terrorists are a real problem for even the most modern, democratic societies.

Terrorists and terrorism cannot be eliminated any more than we can rid the world of disease. There will always be those who will resort to force against innocent men, women, and children in pursuit of political goals.

We give parity to all terrorism regardless of ideology.

When Nawaz Sharif was Prime Minister in 1997, we were combating a different kind of terrorism at that time. It was what you call sectarian terrorism, and 9/11 had not happened. And we were tackling that with success and dedication.

I think the terrorists are just idiots.

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.

If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.

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.

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.

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

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

Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before.

Terrorists

The War on Terrorism does not distinguish between ordinary terrorists and those espousing a political ideology.

Especially dangerous is crime disguised under political and pseudo-religious motives, such as terrorism and the like.