William F. Buckley Jr. Quotes

Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us; allow our leaders to use the fear of terrorism to make us afraid of the truth; cease to think and reason together, allowing others to tell what's in God's mind.

Jihadists are acting against the interests of every single country.

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.

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

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

The campaign against terrorism is going to be global and it's going to be long and there's reason to expect there will be difficulties along the way.

You're always going to have terrorism.

Of course, Islamist terrorists must be captured or killed and their networks disrupted. But to stop their movement’s growth, their ideology must also be undermined.

We know what causes terrorism. Terrorists cause terrorism.

All terror groups are bad, and we shall fight them all.

We think there should be a better countering-violent-extremism effort, that there should be a lead agency tasked to handle that.

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

We cannot use jihadists because it's like shooting yourself in the foot.

Americans understand we fight not a religion; ours is not a campaign against the Muslim faith. Ours is a campaign against evil.

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.

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.

Please deal with the Radical Islamic Threat today.

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

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?

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

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

If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.