War Terror Quotes

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

— John Pilger

This war on terror is bogus.

— Michael Meacher

The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

— Nancy Pelosi

I don't doubt that the war on terror, at its core, is a war on ideology.

— Will Cain

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.

— Marco Rubio

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

— Nick Lampson

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

— Michael Mandelbaum

I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.

— Alberto Gonzales

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

— Alice Walker

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

— Robert Harris

The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning…

— Mike Pence

The United States is now harbouring Luis Posada Carriles. His continued freedom mocks victims of terrorism everywhere. It also shows how heavily…

— Stephen Kinzer

Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat…

— George W. Bush

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

— Shehbaz Sharif

Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran.

— Stephen Rodrick

I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe…

— Stephen Gaghan

Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend…

— Annie Jacobsen

“You would think that after fifteen years of war on terror, waged by a country with nuclear submarines, all terror on earth…

— Brian Huskie

Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement…

— Noam Chomsky

The primary theory embraced by the Bush administration to justify its War on Terror policies was that the 'battlefield' is no longer…

— Glenn Greenwald

After 911, the US Government engaged in mock investigations and shut down many small Islamic charities and organizations, giving the appearance of…

— Sibel Edmonds

The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic…

— Mark Fisher

This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I…

— Edward de Bono

The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror'…

— Anonymous

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending…

— Johnny Isakson

There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts…

— Desmond Tutu

“President Obama dropped the term 'war on terror', and rightly so. Terrorism is not an enemy but a type of warfare that…

— George Friedman

“The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being surprised.…

— George Packer

“For the same reason , the American government has invented a completely new juridical category , that of 'illegal enemy combatants'. In…

— Tzvetan Todorov

“We have talked about World War I and World War II, but could World War III be in our future? The war…

— Ben Carson

One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that…

— Eula Biss

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

— Carolyn McCarthy

Much of what we regard as truth in the war on terror is actually rather suspect.

— Amitava Kumar

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

— Hamid Karzai

Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.

— Stephen Hadley

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

— Jim Ramstad

“Love is the most effective weapon in the war on terror.”

— Lisa Gibson

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

— Bill Kristol