Rand Paul Quotes

There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is badly needed.

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

ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

A lot of terrorists fled out of Afghanistan.

I don't believe ISIS is real.

Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.

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ISIL is dangerous. They're a threat. They're a brutal, horrible force that needs to be dealt with.

I think ISIS can do terrible things.

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

ISIS is the greatest threat.

ISIS has never fought a real battle.

I take ISIS at its word. When they said, in their words, 'We'll use and exploit the refugee crisis to infiltrate the West,' that concerns me.

While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.

The assertion that the war in Iraq has had no role in increasing the terrorist threat to Britain is clearly just intellectually unsustainable.

ISIS is a battle-hardened, highly trained organization that is well-funded. They're one of the strongest armies in the world for their size.

The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.

We need to view ISIS as an enemy.

No doubt, the fight against ISIS is deadly serious, as was the raid that took down their elusive leader.

The Turks have not been historically good about keeping pressure on ISIS.

We're facing an enemy today in the Islamic State that knows no national boundaries. It doesn't have a moral code of conduct.

Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions.

Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.

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