Kenneth Clarke Quotes

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

Counter-terrorism is not solely a military matter.

Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

To me, terrorists should not be able to hide behind their passports and their citizenship, and that includes U.S. citizens, whether they are overseas or whether they are here in the United States. What we need to do is to apply the appropriate tool and the appropriate response.

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.

We must fight and win the battle against terror overseas so we never have to fight it here at home.

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

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.

We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

Well, your premise is correct, that we have to first guard against those who have an affiliation with terrorists and a connection, and so we have watch lists and systems that can make that connection.

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

People should think of the war on terror as being like the war on crime--- a struggle in which success is measured not by final victory but by declines in incidence and seriousness of attacks.

If you want to know what a terrorist is doing, you have to put an agent in their camp.

We will pursue terrorists everywhere. At an airport – okay, at an airport. If we catch them in a lavatory, in an outhouse, we will take them out there with their pants down.

We pay a very heavy price for terrorism, not only because of the damage done by the terrorists but also because of the steps that we take to combat the terrorists.

There's no national strategy to deal with combating terrorism and foreign fighters.

We have to make sure we control who enters our country. And we have to sustain and increase our efforts to fight the terrorists at their source, both on the ground and in the battle for hearts and minds.

The homegrown terrorists are the most significant because any fighter returning from Syria to the United States would likely be identified and detected by our intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

Elected president of the Republic, I would immediately, and with no hesitation, carry out the battle plan against Islamist terrorism and against judicial laxity.

They only have to be right one time, the terrorists do, and we have to be wrong one time.