Backward Quote by Annie Jacobsen

A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we…

— Jed S. Rakoff

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Radical groups can become legitimate political players in the democratic process if they accept core democratic principles and abandon the use of force as…

— Tzipi Livni

You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.

— Akbar Ganji

I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least…

— Marlin Fitzwater

The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to give up…

— John Kiriakou

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

— George W. Bush

Terror cannot be finished by one war.

— Yitzhak Rabin

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization.…

— Alan Greenspan