American Quote by Peter Bergen

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often…

— Joichi Ito

The commonly accepted definition of terrorism is that it is politically motivated violence directed at civilians by entities other than a state. These kind…

— Peter Bergen

As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record…

— William Eldridge Odom

The law enforcement agents believe they cannot call terrorism "terrorism" unless and until they uncover evidence proving that the Muslim mass murderers have some…

— Rush Limbaugh

We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out…

— Daniel Byman

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

— Kumi Naidoo

There is no such things as "Islamic terrorism," because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term "Islamic terrorism"…

— Bashar al-Assad

Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)

— Gore Vidal

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

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their…

— William Blum

It may be that there is so much ambiguity and ideology attached to the term 'terrorism' that it is best to avoid its use…

— Richard A. Falk

To the government, terrorism committed by people who are Muslim is not a reflection on the legitimate interpretation of Islam, even if Islamic supremacist…

— Rush Limbaugh