Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes

We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

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

Pakistan has a firm position of principle in the international battle against terrorism. We reject terrorism in all its forms and manifestations anywhere in the world.

We cannot allow Afghanistan to become again a haven for terrorists who inspire, plan and provide support for attacks like those of 11 September 2001, of 7 July 2005 in London, and more.

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

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

They may be rich, they may be powerful, they may have atom bombs, but Americans and British are no longer safe anywhere in the world…. They may perhaps be able to put Al-Qaeda out of commission, but that does not mean that there will not be other groups. They have been killing so-called terrorist all these years, but there'll simply be more and more terrorists

Terrorism is only a problem in failed states with significant Muslim populations.

Germany has become an important haven for terrorists.

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

This issue of terrorism is as much an issue for Pakistan as it is a Western issue.

It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children.

Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.

I know the pain of having to deal with terrorism. And that's why, after 9-11, I was one of the first to join the international coalition to fight terrorism.

To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.

We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.

Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before.

If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

There are too many countries which have used terrorism as a tactic.

The War on Terror is the only war we have ever been involved with in which our enemy did not want the war to end…. Terrorists do not want to defeat us in the usual sense; they want us to become more like them.

If Pakistan claims to be a crucial partner in the international coalition against terrorism, how can it continue to use terrorism as an instrument of state policy against India? How can the international coalition condone Pakistan-directed killings of thousands of innocent civilians – women and children included – to promote a bizarre version of ‘self-determination’?

This War on Terror has no boundaries …. We have to get them wherever they are.

I don’t know how many foreign fighters we captured who had come to fight because of Abu Gharib.

The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat from radical Islamist terrorists as a whole.

I wouldn't call it America's war on terror. Terrorism is our own fight as well, and if it coincides with the American agenda or the international agenda, well, that's fine.