James Comey Quotes

There are very few fighters in the ISIS organization in Iraq and Syria coming from the United States; most of them have either come from a region of the Middle East or from Europe.

The phenomena here is the foreign fighter threat, the revolving door from Europe to the region in Iraq and Syria and back through Turkey, back into Europe. And that's what happened in the Paris attackers.

The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.

We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

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

Muslim nations provide recruits for fundamentalism, terrorism, insurgency, and migration.

I think it's important to note that after the airstrikes began in Iraq and Syria, ISIS began a very aggressive social media campaign calling for these types of attacks, these lone wolf attacks.

ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.

Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.

Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

Some of the people involved in ISIS are going to Iraq, and some of our young people are being radicalised through the Internet.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

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

We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria.

When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

Ungoverned spaces in the Islamic world will be exploited by people who wish us ill. They will not be contained.

The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other deeper problems.

Syria is hosting the most dangerous terrorist organizations.

The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.

The overall feckless strategy against ISIS in Syria and Iraq enabled the Islamist organization to expand its domain and drive out more religious minorities.

I've often said that the ISIS-Syria-Iraq mess is about as bad as it could be.

The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.

Al-Qaeda has one ideology and they go back to the same leadership in Afghanistan or in Syria or in Iraq. That's the question. You have tens of thousands of foreigners, that's definitely correct. We are fighting them on the ground and we know this.