Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Quotes

We give parity to all terrorism regardless of ideology.

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

We can't be politically correct - right or left - in the war on terrorism. Period.

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

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 war on terrorism is a war of ideas.

The threat from terrorists - from extreme ideologies - needs to be challenged head-on.

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

Terror … is often the result of giving politics a sacred, absolute dimension.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

You cannot fight one terrorist organization by making use of another terrorist organization.

What we have seen with Islamist extremism, whether it is in Mali or Somalia or Afghanistan, is that the disease is not necessarily the individual country. The disease is the Islamist extremism, and that's what we have to fight; that's the narrative that we have to beat.

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

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

We need to make sure these Islamic terrorist organizations don't become mainstream. We're fighting an ideology as much as a group of radical terrorists.

The terrorists may want to try and legitimize their violence by cynically appealing to Islamic motifs or doctrines, but there is no reason the rest of us should help them do it.

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

Terrorism and the fight against extremism is our fight.

Terrorists continue to be outliers with limited appeal at best.

International terrorists who pursue completely mad objectives such as establishing a world caliphate or something of the sort, are quite adept at disguising their real aims as a struggle for independence in Chechnya.

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

Terrorism is resorted to for practical reasons because there is no other tool available. And those who use terrorism, and then subsequently become the targets of terrorism, understand its power and how difficult it is to counter it. Not just militarily. But especially in terms of international perception.