Ehud Olmert Quotes

Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.

Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'

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

The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

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

There is nothing in our experience that can capture the fear that Israelis now live with every hour of every day, where allowing your children to go to a pizza parlor or a disco or just to play in the park can be a choice between life and death.

The problem of terrorism has cost my country 6,000 soldiers and 30,000 civilians…. We have had more losses to terrorism than any other country…. Terrorism is a problem for the entire world.

Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity.

Terrorism knows no boundaries and doesn't respect nations' sovereignties.

We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against terrorism.

I grew up in Punjab when terrorism was at its peak.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

All terrorism is theater.

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

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

Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs.

After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.

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

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives to terrorist attacks inside Pakistan, and thousands more will - because, unlike the Pakistani government, which has no coherent policy to deal with the radicals, the Taliban have one to deal with Pakistan and its citizens.

Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.

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

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

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.