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They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance…

— George W. Bush

I think the terrorists are just idiots.

— Joel Madden

Terrorists act as they do because they don't have great power at their easy disposal. The result is that they rely upon the ability…

— William F. Schulz

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

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are…

— Jurgen Habermas

Terrorist groups share an agenda of authoritarianism, misogyny, and intolerance. They are an affront to the common values encapsulated in the U.N. Charter and…

— Antonio Guterres

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

— Alan Dershowitz

The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to retreat. They…

— George W. Bush

Any attention to them (terrorists) on the part of the media, any double-standard interpretation of their motives and results of their activity means nothing…

— Vladimir Putin

Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.

— Noam Chomsky

Let us follow the facts, not Liberal ideology, and let us target the root cause of terrorism. They are called terrorists.

— Pierre Poilievre