(1349 quotes found)
“Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.”
Bill Clinton
“An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. a crisis [that] calls for firmness and restraint.”
Jimmy Carter
“Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.”
William Saroyan
“The war against terrorism is terrorism.”
Woody Harrelson
“One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a man's eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious of many things that we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.”
William Butler Yeats
“Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.”
Jon Stewart
“Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.”
Jacques Chirac
“I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.”
Naomi Klein
“If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.”
Dennis Miller
