Eric Holder Quotes

Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

There will be a significant terrorist attack in the coming weeks or months and the attack will be spectacular.

Germany has become an important haven for terrorists.

Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.

I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.

Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.

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

Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.

Terrorism has no motherland and terrorists have no nationality.

Israel is under a dual terrorist attack, from within and from without. And terrorism from within is always more dangerous than terrorism from without.

Homegrown terrorists are a real problem for even the most modern, democratic societies.

Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.

It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.

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

There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by the totalitarian Great Powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

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.

We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda.

It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life.

It's because we need to determine who in this country is poised, positioned to commit terrorist acts.

We know that after September 11, there were still terrorists around. We do get continuing information that they're intent on causing some damage and harm to not only U.S. interests but allied interests.

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.