Rajnath Singh Quotes

And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.

More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

We need to deal with the problem of al Qaeda, make sure that they can't have a sanctuary in Afghanistan and guarantee that we have regional stabilization and particularly focused on Pakistan.

We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

There's no question that the main location of Al Qaida is in tribal areas of Pakistan.

Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

Stability in South Asia will depend, first and foremost, on the always troubled Indian-Pakistani relationship.

Nigeria may have contained Ebola, but keeping Boko Haram from establishing an Islamic State will be a hard and bloody fight.

In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.

Syria is hosting the most dangerous terrorist organizations.

We can't afford to leave Afghanistan to the Taliban and the terrorists.

It is very much in America's national security interests to ensure that the Taliban do not dominate Afghanistan and that neither ISIS nor al Qaeda continues their growth in the country.

All terror groups are bad, and we shall fight them all.

I think, technically, we have won the war because people are going back into their neighbourhoods. Boko Haram as an organised fighting force - I assure you that we have dealt with them.

Terrorist organizations such as Hamas must be shut down.

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

Imagine what Nigeria could do for Africa if it was also free of Boko Haram's violence.

A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.

I think that things were getting really very bad a couple of years ago, and there's been a very significant change in response to that on the part of the security forces and the government, but particularly the army. And you see Pakistan actually fighting terrorism and terrorists in a much more wholehearted way than had been occurring previously. It's not anywhere close to over yet, but you've seen a big change in the antiterrorism campaign here.

Obviously it is right that the Afghans take responsibility for their own future in the end, but they need to know and feel that we are there as partners for them if they are prepared to make the necessary changes. But we should be in no doubt as to why we are in Afghanistan. We ended up there because terrorism hatched there erupted thousands of miles away in New York on Sept. 11.

You listen to the intelligence community, they say, listen, maybe it's ISIS today, it's somebody else tomorrow. We'll deal with the caliphate, but it's going to take years to be able to handle this.

There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.

I sincerely hope that whatever influence the United States has in Pakistan, it will convince Pakistan that using terrorism as an instrument of state policy has no place in the world that we want to build.

Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.