Ideological Motives Quotes

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.

Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism.

Terrorism is a decentralized phenomenon - in its funding, planning, and execution.

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

Demanding abrupt and expensive changes in public policy raises fair questions about ideological intentions.

The War on Terrorism does not distinguish between ordinary terrorists and those espousing a political ideology.

I am against judicial reforms based on nakedly partisan reasoning.

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?'

I have been asked about terrorism many times, and each time I speak as clearly as I can.