Sushma Swaraj Quotes

The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.

I believe that when you are attacked like we were attacked in America by these terrorist groups, that we not only have to respond in kind, we've got to go farther. We've got to destroy these groups because just sure as we don't - if we didn't respond, we will be hit again and again and again, and we will live in fear.

I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.

Any Israeli attack on Lebanon, Iran, Syria or Gaza will be met with a fierce response.

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.

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.

Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in Syria. Response? Nothing.

It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.

Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.

Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating.

If America has the right to target Osama bin Laden, or terrorists, of course Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

Treat all skirmishes like wars.

I should like to do something to quiet the alarm about our ... vulnerability to aircraft attack ... is it not much better, if we are threatened by an attack from the air, to go directly and try to root out the land base from which the attack comes, and be equipped to do that, rather than to sit back and wait for them to be on top of us and then shoot at them?

Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here!