Noam Chomsky Quotes

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.

Counter-terrorism is not solely a military matter.

We don’t intend to live with terrorism forever. We will do whatever is necessary …

We will pursue terrorists everywhere. At an airport – okay, at an airport. If we catch them in a lavatory, in an outhouse, we will take them out there with their pants down.

There's no national strategy to deal with combating terrorism and foreign fighters.

In 2001, terrorism was fought in a completely different way.

The fight against terrorism will not be over tomorrow or next month, or even next year. The fight will endure for years to come, and as the threat changes, so too must we adapt to these transformations.

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.

We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas so we never have to fight it here at home.

If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.