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We told the Taliban in no uncertain terms that if this happened, it’s their ass. No difference between the Taliban and al Qaeda now. They both go down.

Head for jihad and have your guns ready.

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

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

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.

Find Al Quaeda and Kill Them

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

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

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.

From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

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

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.

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

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.

It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.

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.

It's probably time to end the global war on terrorism.

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.

I think it is absolutely correct to solve the problem of terrorism in Iraq and Syria and Libya.

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

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