Richard N. Haass Quotes

Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

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.

Terrorism is only a problem in failed states with significant Muslim populations.

Israel is under a dual terrorist attack, from within and from without. And terrorism from within is always more dangerous than terrorism from without.

You cannot have good terrorists and bad terrorists.

Pakistan and its associates find it difficult to understand that there are no 'good terrorists and bad terrorists.'

Terrorists continue to be outliers with limited appeal at best.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens - raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born.

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.

Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.

Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before.

There are too many countries which have used terrorism as a tactic.

The War on Terror is the only war we have ever been involved with in which our enemy did not want the war to end…. Terrorists do not want to defeat us in the usual sense; they want us to become more like them.

The War on Terror is a religious war … We are dealing with a set of ideas that kill.

Terrorism is a means/a tactic, not an ideological or defined physical enemy

The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat from radical Islamist terrorists as a whole.

Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.

We need to keep an eye on influences from the Middle East or, let's say, indigenous groups, that might be involved in terrorism.

Terrorism is perpetrated by individuals and cannot be blamed on any one religion, be it Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity.

We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against terrorism.

I think the terrorists are just idiots.