Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

As strong as the United States is, we can’t deal with terrorism alone.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn’t threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

Qatar-based ‚Al-Jazeera,‘ the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having ‚emphasized civilian casualties‘ during the destruction of Falluja. The problem of independent media was later resolved when the channel was kicked out of Iraq in preparation for free elections.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

I hope I’m wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy – worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.

Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

There’s no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.