Donald Rumsfeld Terrorist Quotations

We're not going to making requests of the Saudi Arabian government. We are respectful of the circumstance of the countries of the region. We understand that, ... Our interest is to create a set of conditions, a sustained effort against terrorist networks in the region.

It is important to go after the air defenses of the Taliban, and their aircraft, ... We are also targeting the command facilities of terrorist forces.

We're working to make clear to the Afghan people that we support them, and we're working to free them from the Taliban and their foreign terrorist allies,

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

This war is not about one man or one terrorist network or even one country, ... It is about a problem that infects this globe of ours with a number of terrorist networks and cells in a number of countries.

We have to expect that global terrorist networks that we know are trying to get these weapons will in fact be successful at some time in the future,

Even that does not suggest that there cannot be a terrorist event somewhere, someplace in the world and I suspect there will be,

and we have worked over a number if not all of their terrorist training camps.

The United States has a long relationship with the Philippines, ... Some time back, I signed understandings that we would provide some training and assistance to the Philippine government ... to deal with the terrorist problem that they have.

Syria's been on the terrorist list for years,

No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to our security than Iraq,

I really believe that before its over, its not going be a cruise missile or a bomber that is going to be the determining factor, ... It's going to be a scrap of information from some person, in some country that's been repressed by a dictatorial regime that's been sponsoring a terrorist organization that's going to provide the information that's going to enable us to pull this network up by its roots and end it.

And by the same token, we've got to keep our eye on the ball, and the ball is trying to protect the American people from additional terrorist attacks and try to track down the folks that are planning threats against our country, here and abroad.