Barack Obama Quotes

Now that Washington once again has a tangible adversary -- variously described as ‘freedom-hating terrorists,’ ‘Salafist jihadis,’ or ‘Islamofascists’ -- U.S. leaders have convinced the American public that foreign policy is an ‘us-versus-them’ contact sport in which the primary tactics are military and coercive

Terrorism is a strategy of provocation.

It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.

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

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

We may use or release terrorist groups to seek revenge.

In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

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

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

Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.

It’s the confrontation with modernity that produces terrorism.

Terrorism is what the weak use to increase their bargaining power against the strong.

The war on terrorism is a war of ideas.

Terrorism and its executioners have their own agenda, entirely independent of the popular will, of democratic considerations or institutions, or of the aspirations and desires of the community they claim to represent. They are defeated, not by the operation of some mystical force called ‘popular will’, but by the force of arms. Their activities are not some convenient substitute for the ballot box; they are an absolute rejection of every value integral to democracy.

Terrorists and terrorism cannot be eliminated any more than we can rid the world of disease. There will always be those who will resort to force against innocent men, women, and children in pursuit of political goals.

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.

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

True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

All terrorism is theater.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.

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.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.