Brent Scowcroft Quotes

The real threat comes from terrorism.

I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.

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

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

You're always going to have terrorism.

Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'

Terrorists

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

Terrorism often finds a home in states mired in civil war …

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

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

It’s the confrontation with modernity that produces terrorism.

Terrorism and negotiations simply do not go together.

Terrorists cannot win unless they affect the way we think and act.

The success of terrorism anywhere breeds terrorism everywhere.

The war on terrorism is a war of ideas.

Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.

The concept of the terrorists is to plunge our country into division.

The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to see a son of ISIS, or even a grandson of ISIS, developing in the years to come.

Terrorist organizations such as Hamas must be shut down.

The terrorist isn't a problem because he doesn't conform; he's a problem because he does. It's what he conforms to that makes him dangerous.

If we are to rid ourselves of terrorism, we will have to genuinely believe that attempts to distinguish between 'good' and 'bad' terrorists are misleading.