Marco Rubio Quotes

In order to win the war on terrorism, we have to win the war of information. Information is so very, very valuable. This is an important tool in gathering up information.

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.

We need to wage this war against ISIS from the air, on the ground, and online, in cyberspace.

The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media

I avoid continuously writing or tweeting about ISIS, as it centres them in the narrative and we end up reacting to them and reacting to the agenda they set.

ISIL are already using the Internet for hideous propaganda purposes - for radicalisation, for operational planning, too.

We have about 200,000 ISIS tweets per day that hit the United States. The chatter is so loud and the volume is so high that it's a problem that's very hard to stop and disrupt in this country.

ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using.

Whenever they asked me the question about what are you going to do about ISIS, I say, you know, I have a real chance of winning. I don't really want to tell you. I have very strong ideas and I'll be dealing with the people in this room and other folks that are, you know, very good at this, but the last thing you want to do is give notice to the enemy.

ISIS is winning the propaganda war. They are recruiting people, including Americans, to join them, with the promise that they are joining this great apocalyptic movement that is going to defeat the West.

An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then asked not to focus on the Taliban but on manipulating senators into giving more funds and troops [to the war].

When mainstream Muslims defeat the Islamic State, that lessens the ability of the Islamic State to recruit and fund-raise.

We have a duty to fight ISIS; air operations alone will not defeat ISIS.

Through the Internet, ISIS and other terrorist groups reach people they wouldn't ordinarily be able to reach.

Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.

In my view, it is only when civilians are protected that we will defeat ISIS, and until that is at the centre of our plan, I will remain an outspoken advocate for that cause.

After 9/11, it became clear that we [the United States] had to do several things to have a successful strategy to win the global war on terror, specifically that we had to go after the terrorists wherever we might find them, that we also had to go after state sponsors of terror, those who might provide sanctuary or safe harbor for terror.

The main thing we should be focused on is the strategy to destroy ISIS. And I laid out a plan that the Reagan Library before the tragedy of Paris, and before San Bernardino to do just that. It requires leadership, it's not filing an amendment and call it a success.

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.

Anyone who kills women and children is not devout. ISIS cannot dress themselves up in false religious garb and say that somehow this message has dignity. We're going to strip them of any kind of legitimacy.

ISIS is going to devolve from physical political emirate, into what Al Qaeda was, which is a covert organization which will go completely underground. But to communicate and to keep propagating their propaganda, after everyone is dead, all their fanboys and whatever surviving leadership that has been operating outside the war or operates in Somalia, Yemen, and Afghanistan, they will form what we call a "ghost caliphate."

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.