George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2005, Address to the Nation on Iraqi Elections (December 2005)
“It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.”
Source: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
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Context: We seek to terrorize them, as they seek to terrorize us. As the anarchist believes that oppression may be ended by the murder of the oppressor, so society cherishes the thought that anarchism may be ended by the murder of the anarchist. Are not our methods in truth the same, and can any man doubt that both are equally futile and senseless? Both the anarchy of the powerful and the anarchy of the weak are stupid and abortive, in that they lead to results diametrically opposed to the ends sought.