George W. Bush Quotes

If the war on terror is endless, you could forget about democracy.

Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is completely replaced by arbitrary government power?

I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II.

Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.

I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.

And above all, what does being liberal have to do with opposing, or, uh, supporting the war against terror? Our enemies in the war against terror are so anti-liberal that you would think it would be liberals leaping to protect the world from these monstrous ideologies.

The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're all taught are what distinguishes the US and keeps it free.

We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance rather than weaken, the rights and liberties that terrorism precisely threatens with extinction.

They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.

The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

There was before 9-11 and after 9-11. After 9-11, the gloves came off.

The war on terror, sometimes known as the 'Global War on Terror' or by the clunky acronym GWOT, became the lens through which the Bush administration judged almost all of its foreign policy decisions. That proved to be dangerously counterproductive on several levels.

I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.

The struggle for freedom and justice is now.

The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit.

I do think that when you go into red states, they're - so-called red states - I think they're troubled with certain excesses with respect to the Patriot Act, but they're also concerned with making sure we're secure against terrorism.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

Turkey has, of course, the right to protect itself against terrorism, against attacks, but I expect it to be done in a way which is in accordance with the rule of law, democratic values. And that is something I have expressed several times in meetings with the Turkish leaders.

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.