Terrorism

 

"Terrorists never win.  They just share defeat more widely." - Andy Zaltzman

"The Patriot Act was not meant to be just for terrorism." Mark Corallo, Justice Department spokesman.

 "A new organization of uncertain makeup using the name 'Group of the Martyr Ebenezer Scrooge' plans to sabotage the annual courier flight of the Government of the North Pole... Prime Minister and Chief Courier S. Claus has been notified and security precautions are being co-ordinated worldwide." - from the CIA Weekly Situation Report on International Terrorism, presented to President Ford in December 1974. It was classified secret for 25 years and blacked out when the report was declassified.

"Here comes a minivan full of tourists. I mean terrorists." -John Hartford

 "Terrorists are political illiterates." -David Gerrold

“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building." - Ann Coulter
 
"Already, the media myth-making machine is spewing out alarming reports of the 'shadowy force' of Taleban 'fundamentalists' in Darth Vaderish black turbans who want to impose 'purist Islamic' rule. That's scary stuff. But it's not true, and may even be dangerous in this case. Because the Taleban could be the best thing that's happened to Afghanistan in years, and they are counting on Western support for their efforts to restore Afghanistan's independence, and free it from drug smugglers and visiting terrorists. If the policy makers get too hung up on those black turbans, they're going to miss some white hats underneath." -Nancy deWolf Smith, Wall Street Journal, 1995