Court Quote by Rick Santorum

We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values,…

— Barack Obama

This is a time when the protections of Americans' liberties are directly at risk, as are the checks and balances that have served to…

— Patrick Leahy

The fight against terrorism is a legitimate fight. And certainly whoever commits terrorism should be brought to justice. Unfortunately, the United States and a…

— Shirin Ebadi

We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to…

— Gerald Bard Tjoflat

To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a…

— Frank B. Kellogg

Now, at times this issue has tended to degenerate into an 'either-or' type of debate. Either we protect our people from terror or we…

— Barack Obama

The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're…

— Glenn Greenwald

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

— Anonymous

Because Al-Qaeda has been a non-state centered organisation, many of these scenarios do not exactly apply. These are not wars between states. And yet,…

— Judith Butler

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

Once we got hit by - on 9/11 and lost 3,000 people that day, we recognized, and it was one of the key decisions…

— Dick Cheney

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

— Anonymous