Mac Thornberry Quotes

The entire world is the front line for terrorism.

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

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.

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

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

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.

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.

With terrorism becoming the increasing tactic of choice, the military component would become a smaller component of our national security system.

True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.

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

Bottoms line: terrorists are always at work.

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.

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

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

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.

The campaign against terrorism is going to be global and it's going to be long and there's reason to expect there will be difficulties along the way.