“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”
“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
“The world divides into those who like the managed induction of terror and those who don’t. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying.”
“What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.”
“Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign of terror, in the shadow of the guillotine.”
“It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.”