#terror

One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#attacks #because #big #chunk #deficit

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

#ages #allow #back #basic #corrupt

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#agencies #brought #charged #down #enforcement

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#expectation #going #increase #invaded #iraq

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#either #every #every nation #finance #going

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection. ↗

— William S. Cohen

#choose #civil #civil liberties #escalating #intrusive

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#indispensable #little #men #our #pretty

The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe. ↗

— John Conyers

#across #american #american troops #build #casey

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful. ↗

— John Cusack

#black #black and white #evil #fact #helpful

It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps. ↗

— Peter Straub

#terror #experience