Thom Tillis Quotes

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

Isis Remains! ISIS Expands!.

The real threat comes from terrorism.

I think ISIS can do terrible things.

The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to see a son of ISIS, or even a grandson of ISIS, developing in the years to come.

We need to view ISIS as an enemy.

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of instability now stretches from Algeria to Pakistan.

Find Al Quaeda and Kill Them

I think ISIS is achieving the objectives that they have set out to achieve. I think that they feel probably very emboldened. They feel pretty good. Their resiliency is extraordinary.

Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.

Bottoms line: terrorists are always at work.

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

I absolutely believe that another 9/11 is possible.

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'

The borders of Islam are bloody.

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

Terrorism is a means/a tactic, not an ideological or defined physical enemy

We need to stop the flow of suicide bombers, we need to stop the fatwas (religious edicts) coming from Saudis to justify the killings of innocent Iraqis.