"Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known."
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"The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket."
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"I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship."
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"I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them."
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"It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism."
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"This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security."
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"Battling terrorism must go beyond belligerence vs. isolation."
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"Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair."
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"Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?"
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"I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever."
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"All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual."
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"When the federal government announces indictments, weather it's a terrorism indictment or something else, it's almost like it's taken like gospel. My message to anyone who wants to do any of this kind of work is we desperately need a new generation of journalists who do not regard these indictments as gospel. Not to say they shouldn't be fairly reported on, but we need to start asking, "Is this really true?" I hope this can happen more in the future."
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"There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case."
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"War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale."
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"I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism."
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"I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave."
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"If we can't meet with our friends, I don't know how we're going to lead the world in terms of dealing with critical issues like terrorism."
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"Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management."
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"It's not only America. Terrorism now is a threat to the whole world."
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"While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats."
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