Tom Tancredo Quotes

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.

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

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.

I am committed to protecting our country against the threat of terrorism.

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

Counterterrorism, cyberterrorism, it's real.

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.

We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life.

P of what al Qaeda tries to do, and terrorists, is disrupt. Americans should live their lives just as they have every day, but just be aware.

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

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

President George W. Bush's aggressive war on Islamic terrorism produced a 100 percent perfect track record of keeping the United States safe from another attack. The result has been increased security for the American people, who, in turn, have become complacent about the true nature of the threat.

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.

We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.

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

We have not yet, as a nation, made a generation-long commitment to this terrorist threat.

We are much safer in the United States, but not yet safe.

When these attacks occur, as they likely will, we will wonder what more we could have done to stop them.

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

We stand stoutly against all forms of terrorism, and cross-border terror is a particular problem that India has. Singapore has a problem with cross-border terror, too, because we are a very small country, and it is quite possible for an attack to be mounted on Singapore from beyond our shores.

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.

If terrorism tries to dent the security of this country and its sovereignty, we will give it a befitting reply.

The issue that Mr. Trump is talking about and which, really, frankly, I expect the media should be talking about is protecting the American homeland from national security risks and terrorists.