"Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.“

-John O. Brennan

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"I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks."

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