John Brennan Quotes

What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations.

I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day.

Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan.

To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta.

When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

Some people are afraid that there will be an European “us verses them” dichotomy with the Moslems. There already is an “us verses them” dichotomy. What else can you call it when “them” is killing “us.”

The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists are Muslims! …. Our terrorist sons are an end-product of our corrupted culture.

… terrorism is a plague in our countries. It compounds our development problems.

Terrorism thrives when the gap between the 'haves' and 'have nots' becomes so wide and when the 'have nots' reach the point of such desperation, pain, and agony that they have nothing to lose.

It's pretty rough in South Africa. It's a rough culture. Imagine rough - well, it's rougher than that.

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

The U.N. and other international bodies, along with wealthier nations, could manage the unavoidable migration from poorer countries if there were greater focus on stopping the larger chaos created by leaders who finance and support terrorism in the name of Islam.