George W. Bush Quotes

It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.

Find Al Quaeda and Kill Them

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.

Head for jihad and have your guns ready.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.

I absolutely believe that another 9/11 is possible.

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

We are at war with Al Qaeda and its affiliates.

Your biggest threat is bin Laden!

If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.

From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.