• If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.5 · 52 votes · 40 reads

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• In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.8 · 46 votes · 112 reads

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• International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

  

  Boris Yeltsin

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.6 · 58 votes · 18 reads

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• It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.

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  Horst Koehler

  PoliticianGerman1943 · 20th century

  3.0 · 11 votes · 10 reads

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• It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.1 · 29 votes · 114 reads

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• No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.3 · 6 votes · 164 reads

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• No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  5.0 · 61 votes · 79 reads

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• Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.0 · 62 votes · 99 reads

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• 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

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.3 · 8 votes · 170 reads

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• Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.8 · 19 votes · 143 reads

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• Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.0 · 9 votes · 168 reads

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• Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

  

  Jacques Chirac

  PoliticianFrench1932 · 20th century

  4.9 · 34 votes · 59 reads

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• Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.9 · 55 votes · 35 reads

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• Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.3 · 8 votes · 137 reads

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• 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.

  

  Jacques Chirac

  PoliticianFrench1932 · 20th century

  4.4 · 45 votes · 80 reads

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• Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  5.0 · 21 votes · 102 reads

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• Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.4 · 44 votes · 33 reads

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• The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

  

  Lionel Jospin

  PoliticianFrench1937 · 20th century

  5.0 · 48 votes · 72 reads

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• The only message that terrorists need to get is that they're going to be beaten.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

  PoliticianSpanish1953 · 20th century

  4.1 · 53 votes · 86 reads

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• The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.3 · 51 votes · 1 reads

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• The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 171 reads

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• The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.1 · 49 votes · 37 reads

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• There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 161 reads

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• There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

  PoliticianSpanish1953 · 20th century

  4.3 · 26 votes · 110 reads

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• There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.0 · 63 votes · 113 reads

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• This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.1 · 35 votes · 2 reads

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• We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.

  

  Boris Yeltsin

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.5 · 5 votes · 19 reads

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• We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.2 · 41 votes · 82 reads

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• We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.7 · 42 votes · 27 reads

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• We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

  PoliticianSpanish1953 · 20th century

  4.5 · 43 votes · 190 reads

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• We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.7 · 26 votes · 54 reads

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• When you have armed militants, aided and abetted by a major country like Russia, able to use surface-to-air missiles to bring down a commercial airline, that is a form of terrorism.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.9 · 32 votes · 89 reads

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