John Spratt Quotes

Iraq is fighting a war against terrorism. We are trying our best to fight them. We are trying our best to fight outlaws in our country.

In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq's streets and uproot the terrorists and guerrillas who routinely attack American troops and civilian targets.

All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.

I don’t think one can speak of defeating the IRA, of eliminating them completely, but it is the design of the security forces to reduce their level of violence to something like an acceptable level.

We must stop arming terrorists.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

If the American military begins to withdrawal, there will be no need for these armed groups.

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get.

And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey.

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.

I saw my city gripped by fear. Because of violent acts committed by illegal aliens, my residents were afraid to shop - or even drive - on certain streets.

More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

Crime is the number one problem in Russia.

In any insurgency, the insurgents are in a win-win situation. Even though there is anger towards the insurgents as the result of violence, there is also anger towards the authorities for not protecting people.

The war on terror is a struggle that will last for generations.

Emotions run high in war and we put a lot of people in prison who did no more than you or I.

The borderline between guerrilla warfare and crime, between patriotism and terrorism, is often a very thin one.

Shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting any stores in our city.

The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be.