The American pledge not to negotiate with terrorists has been honored more in the breach than the observance from the moment President Ronald Reagan made it.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
We have learned a long time ago that one cannot compromise with terrorists.
We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.
A compromise appears out of reach on the stripping of terrorists' nationality.
In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.
It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.
We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.
We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense.
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