ideologically motivated violence Quotes

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

These acts of terrorism are being committed by American citizens in this particular instance at a Planned Parenthood site, certain with a political agenda, fueled by the extremist rhetoric that we've seen from some on the hill and from people all across the country as it relates to a woman's right to choose.

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

Obviously radical Islamic terrorism is a big problem, but there are all sorts of kinds of horrific terrorism that take place.

They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists.

You can't differentiate between an Islamic terrorist and a Christian terrorist. Or a politically motivated terrorist who's anti-abortion or someone who may have differing views.

Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.

We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

We are now at a point where because we in fact have been successful at stopping a number of plots, a threat has evolved. We do see these lone-wolf actors. We do see these encouragements for troubled individuals to pick up a gun and act out of this ideology.

I think that the potential for homegrown terrorist attacks is something that we have to be very concerned about, because, in many respects, it's harder to detect when you have an independent actor who may be living in our midst, in our own communities.