Paul Nehlen Quotes

To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and 'soft,' based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

Social media is not only the most important tool for inciting terrorists, it can also be an effective weapon against them.

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

I am committed to protecting our country against the threat of terrorism.

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

Profiling is a means for telling whom you have to worry about.

The terrorists … are giving Islam a bad name. And what the West must do is ask the Politically incorrect questions and we Americans of Arab and Muslim origin owe them honest answers

There's no national strategy to deal with combating terrorism and foreign fighters.

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

We have to make sure we control who enters our country. And we have to sustain and increase our efforts to fight the terrorists at their source, both on the ground and in the battle for hearts and minds.

The homegrown terrorists are the most significant because any fighter returning from Syria to the United States would likely be identified and detected by our intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

We think there should be a better countering-violent-extremism effort, that there should be a lead agency tasked to handle that.

Counterterrorism, cyberterrorism, it's real.

In 2001, terrorism was fought in a completely different way.

We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.

You won't see Christians violently attacking people for criticising their religion like you do with Islam, things like the Charlie Hebdo attack.

President Obama has argued there isn't a threat of terrorism from the U.S. refugee program because for individuals who apply it takes two years, 'heavy vetting' and is a relatively long process. It doesn't matter. Jihad is patient, and as ISIS has pledged, it will do whatever it takes to get the job done.

It is necessary that we eliminate the scourge of terrorism in all its forms, without any discrimination, and end the ecosystem of its support.

The numbers of terrorists that we have caught coming - we actually don't catch them coming across the border. We usually catch them in some other context.