Amber Rudd Quotes

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.

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

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

Terrorists hate the ideas America has championed around the world. It is inevitable that people will wonder if there are intellectual connections with others who have turned to violence to attack international finance, globalization and the United States

The threat from terrorists - from extreme ideologies - needs to be challenged head-on.

Pakistan and its associates find it difficult to understand that there are no 'good terrorists and bad terrorists.'

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

Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed.

I think the terrorists are just idiots.

There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.

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

I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

The war on terrorism is a war of ideas.

Terrorism is not related to Islam.

You cannot negotiate with organizations that are based on an ideology whose core is to destroy the West and America.

Terrorism is perpetrated by individuals and cannot be blamed on any one religion, be it Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity.

Terrorism is not something that is being conducted in dark corners of Pakistan. It's done in broad daylight.

We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against terrorism.

Terrorists continue to be outliers with limited appeal at best.

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.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

The terrorists hide behind Allah.