Dick Gephardt Quotes

We will not allow other countries to use our soil as a battleground.

Why did the Pakistani military attack us on behalf of JeM? You not only keep JeM on your soil but fund them, and when the victim country retaliates, you attack it on the terror outfit's behalf.

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing.

Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.

Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.

The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

When you have armed militants, aided and abetted by a major country like Russia, able to use surface-to-air missiles to bring down a commercial airline, that is a form of terrorism.

We can’t defend against terrorists without going after states who support or aid the terrorists.

Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world — particularly the Third World — since the late 1940s

By invading Iraq, the President has undermined the War on Terrorism.

if we did possess a chemical bomb, we wouldn’t hesitate one second to use it.

We send billions of taxpayer dollars abroad and what do we get in return? Disrespect, disdain, and ultimately violence.

On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.

I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.

I don't believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism.

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

That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.