Jeh Johnson Quotes

It is an evil time but it is a complex time because we do not have uniforms standing in front of us. Instead, we have people in disguise. It is brutal. This ISIS thing - it is something we are going to devote a lot of energy to it. I think we are going to be very successful.

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

I think Americans have every reason to be worried about ISIS and the network of terrorist groups, because they have proven to be sophisticated and effective in wreaking violence and murder in many parts of the world, including in San Bernardino with their somehow connected radicalization of that couple there.

Jihadists are acting against the interests of every single country.

ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.

The entire world is the front line for terrorism.

… terrorism is a plague in our countries. It compounds our development problems.

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.

Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.

The fight against terrorism is not a confrontation against any religion.

This issue of terrorism is as much an issue for Pakistan as it is a Western issue.

The survival of ISIS's ideology is success enough for them. We must spare no effort in denying ISIS this success.

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

When I first raised the issue of the so-called Islamic State at the Munich Security Conference in February, speaking about its economy, its flexibility and pathology, people thought I was trying to scare them. But now we have experienced just that. If al-Qaida was version 2.0 of terror, then the Islamic State is version 5.0.

More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.

I can only tell you there's a lot of bad things going on. They're chopping off heads in Syria, and they're chopping off heads all over the Middle East.ISIS is doing a number, and plenty of other beyond ISIS is doing it now. And all I know is that, when they start chopping off heads, we have to be very firm, we have to be very strong, we have to be very vigilant. And I heard a statement, and I disagree with his statement.

Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years.

I plead - that it's very difficult when you deal with - ISIS and organizations like that whose - whose behavior is so barbaric and so vicious - that it doesn't seem to have any purpose other than lust for killing and power. And that's very difficult to put ourselves in other shoes.

After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.

It is time we learnt that a terrorist is no man's friend and everyman's enemy.

I think what happened with 9/11 is that people sort of felt that it came from nowhere. Whereas I think now we understand the roots are very deep. I say it's like revolutionary Communism, something that is going to have to be knocked out over a very long period of time. This strain of extremism continues to be very strong, whether it's in Afghanistan, or Somalia or Yemen, or any of these places.

This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.

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

Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.