Bashir Assad Quotes

[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.

Jihadists are acting against the interests of every single country.

We know what causes terrorism. Terrorists cause terrorism.

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

You cannot have good terrorists and bad terrorists.

The fight against terrorism is not a confrontation against any religion.

The terrorists know that the outcome will leave them emboldened or defeated. So they are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to take.

I think that ISIS is a problem and it's really a symptom of a much greater problem.

As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress.

Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years.

Terrorism is in many, many ways the final utterance of voices unheard.

I plead - that it's very difficult when you deal with - ISIS and organizations like that whose - whose behavior is so barbaric and so vicious - that it doesn't seem to have any purpose other than lust for killing and power. And that's very difficult to put ourselves in other shoes.

Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.

It is time we learnt that a terrorist is no man's friend and everyman's enemy.

The people who did this act on America, and who may be planning further acts, are evil people. They don't represent an ideology, they don't represent a legitimate political group of people. They're flat evil. That's all they can think about, is evil. And as a nation of good folks, we're going to hunt them down, and we're going to find them, and we will bring them to justice.

When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.

Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

His [Osama bin Laden]excessive use of terror, including numerous attacks that indiscriminately killed many women and children, and of course many Muslims, has hurt the attractiveness of his message.

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?

The issue of terrorism must be dealt with firmly. We must work very hard to avoid loss of life. We must work very hard to avoid civilian casualties. And those terrorists and Baathists are holding the people of Fallujah hostage. We must release the hostages.

'9/11' came out of a swamp of hatred created by us.

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

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