Gore Vidal Quotes

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.

The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

This is an eternal war against terrorism. It’s like a war on dandruff.

There is a war on terror that must be fought. Nobody's immune... And so rather than finding fault with what Spain has done by being aggressive in the war on terror, this should redouble everyone's efforts to go after terrorist organizations of any kind... Terror has to be brought to an end.

Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

I share the Presidents commitment to fighting and winning the war on terrorism.

When you look around now we have the war on terror. Yes, okay, the World Trade Center was sort of like a single act of war, but nothing else has been. We've turned it into war. We're talking about a bunch of semi-lunatic, fanatic criminals. That's the way they should be treated.

You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

They [terrorists] have declared war on us and we need to have a serious strategy to destroy ISIS.

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror.

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.

To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible.

The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.

The administration asserts that two thirds or three quarters of al-Qaeda’s managers have been captured or killed, and that al-Qaeda must therefore be on the ropes. Why spend vast sums defending against it?

The war on terror is a struggle that will last for generations.

Since Bin Laden's death, many Americans have decided that our job in Afghanistan is done. They see a victory in the counterterrorism campaign, and are tired of the corruption, confusion and dysfunction of the nation-building campaign.

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

I really wanted to talk about the War on Terror and say that both sides were completely incompetent [in addressing it]. You can't blame the other side when you're involved in it.

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.