Thomas Friedman Quotes

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

The war on terror is a struggle that will last for generations.

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

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

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

The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

Terror cannot be finished by one war.

Terrorism is a means/a tactic, not an ideological or defined physical enemy

This is an eternal war against terrorism. It’s like a war on dandruff.

Those are the two issues: Protecting the homeland and stopping the war and going after ISIS in a way that ends the terrorism.

The survival of ISIS's ideology is success enough for them. We must spare no effort in denying ISIS this success.

If we are to rid ourselves of terrorism, we will have to genuinely believe that attempts to distinguish between 'good' and 'bad' terrorists are misleading.

Terrorism and the fight against extremism is our fight.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

It's probably time to end the global war on terrorism.

We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.

And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.

We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.

The War on Terrorism does not distinguish between ordinary terrorists and those espousing a political ideology.