Ariel Sharon Quotes

Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding.

A Taliban collapse could be rapid, with the enemy shrinking to a small number of hard-core Mullah Omar supporters in the early days or weeks of a military campaign.

The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens.

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling.

Arafat conducts terror; his strategy is the strategy of terror.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

What is happening in the Sahel for the past several months is that terrorists have structured themselves, have installed themselves. It's not simply a menace for west Africa.

In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

Al Qaeda has come back. Al Qaeda is a resilient organization. But they're not here in large numbers. But al Qaeda doesn't have to be anywhere in large numbers.

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

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

We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched anywhere in the world.

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.

Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before.

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.

I think it is absolutely correct to solve the problem of terrorism in Iraq and Syria and Libya.

The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.

In Pakistan militancy has become an economy all of its own.

We are at war with Al Qaeda and its affiliates.

Terrorism often finds a home in states mired in civil war …

You cannot fight one terrorist organization by making use of another terrorist organization.