George Osborne Quotes

The war on terrorism is a war of ideas.

We need to make sure these Islamic terrorist organizations don't become mainstream. We're fighting an ideology as much as a group of radical terrorists.

The survival of ISIS's ideology is success enough for them. We must spare no effort in denying ISIS this success.

We give parity to all terrorism regardless of ideology.

Terrorism and the fight against extremism is our fight.

Terrorists continue to be outliers with limited appeal at best.

Of course, Islamist terrorists must be captured or killed and their networks disrupted. But to stop their movement’s growth, their ideology must also be undermined.

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

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.

We have our own home-grown terrorism, and to the extent that we can obliterate terrorism all over the world, then our own terrorism will be much easier to neutralize.

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

The condition that the Taliban part with al Qaeda is not just a condition, it is an objective. We must convince them that al Qaeda ideology and dogma will not help them.

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

We will continue to work around the world to beat ISIS about where they may exist, these are horrible ideologies or murderous ideologies.

ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using.

Italy remains deeply engaged in the global fight against terrorism as well as on domestic programmes against radicalisation.

We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.

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

We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.

I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.

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.

We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

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

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

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.