Dick Cheney Quotes

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

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

If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.

They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.

But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.

We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

They may be rich, they may be powerful, they may have atom bombs, but Americans and British are no longer safe anywhere in the world…. They may perhaps be able to put Al-Qaeda out of commission, but that does not mean that there will not be other groups. They have been killing so-called terrorist all these years, but there'll simply be more and more terrorists

You can’t separate the struggle against the Baathists (of Iraq) from the struggle against global terrorism.

The War on Terror is the only war we have ever been involved with in which our enemy did not want the war to end…. Terrorists do not want to defeat us in the usual sense; they want us to become more like them.

The war on terrorism is a war of ideas.

This War on Terror has no boundaries …. We have to get them wherever they are.

You couldn’t truly fight terror while working with Pakistan, the greatest shelter for terrorists.

We pay a very heavy price for terrorism, not only because of the damage done by the terrorists but also because of the steps that we take to combat the terrorists.

Let's have a conversation about how we destroy ISIS.

Whole nation is fighting against the terrorists, and this struggle will continue till the complete elimination of terrorists.

His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.

Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.