“It's beyond a tragedy. It's really an act of terrorism and, in my mind, a cold-blooded assassination.”
George Pataki
“[Neighboring India called the assassination a] terrorist crime. ... a vicious act of terror.”
Condoleezza Rice
“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.”
Adolf Hitler
“The main message is that in a democracy, [assassination] is not the means to change policy, ... Unfortunately, the assassin was right: for a while, there was a freeze in process.”
Yitzhak Rabin
“Calling for the assassination of a head of state is a terrorist act,”
Hugo Chavez
“The assassination of his character, to me, is absolutely ludicrous. There's no question in my mind, if there's a person in the world of hockey that deserves the benefit of the doubt in a situation such as this, it's Wayne Gretzky.”
John Davidson
“This is a criminal act, a political assassination and a continued Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people.”
Saeb Erakat
