Tim Pawlenty Quotes


"The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen."
- Tim Pawlenty
(Related: Legal, People, Value)

"There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people."
- Tim Pawlenty
(Related: Design, Religion, People, Islam, Fact, Name, Radical)

"We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama."
- Tim Pawlenty
(Related: Government, Control, Country, President, Unemployment)

"I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing."
- Tim Pawlenty
(Related: Killing, Respect, Support, Value)