Community Quote by John Ashcroft

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.

— Donald Rumsfeld

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

— Marco Rubio

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide,…

— Tony Blair

“The term terrorism is widely misused. It is utilized in its generic sense as a form of shorthand by governments and the media and…

— Neil Livingstone

The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.

— Tom Clancy

Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under…

— Farouk of Egypt

Terrorism is not a limited threat, it is a world wide operation. Today, many countries in the east, and in the west, in the…

— Pratibha Patil

Terrorism is a tactic in which the primary objective is to produce fear, rather than direct harm. Terrorist attacks are, first and foremost, psychological…

— Bret Weinstein

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

— Al Franken

We live in a time of terror, and contrary to what we see on television and allow ourselves to believe, the real goal of…

— John Lahr

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

— Boaz Ganor

The definition of terrorism has to be more precise, so that we are able to discriminate between, for example, what it is that the…

— Edward Said