Barack Obama Quotes

The administration asserts that two thirds or three quarters of al-Qaeda’s managers have been captured or killed, and that al-Qaeda must therefore be on the ropes. Why spend vast sums defending against it?

One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq.

Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home.

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports.

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

We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.

To make us a terrorist target in a region that is full of terrorism is dumb and unforgiveable.

During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.

Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before.

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

Local conflicts can have global consequences.

The islamo-fascists see Israel as the appetizer. We are the main course.

If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?

ISIS has stated that it intends to infiltrate the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the barbaric ISIS terrorists, using their families as cover.

Terrorism is a persistent and evolving global menace. No country is immune.

If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.

There's been intelligence that terrorists would look to programs such as the visa waiver program to exploit.

The issue that Mr. Trump is talking about and which, really, frankly, I expect the media should be talking about is protecting the American homeland from national security risks and terrorists.

The FBI assesses HVEs are the greatest terrorism threat to the homeland.

The biggest threat that we face right now is not a nuclear missile coming over the skies. It's in a suitcase. This is why the issue of nuclear proliferation is so important. It is the - the biggest threat to the United States is a terrorist getting their hands on nuclear weapons.

Isil poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East - including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the United States.

I think what history will show is that one of the most tragic results of the war in Iraq will be that although Sharon, the Likudites, the Neoconservatives in our country, President Bush and the Democratic party thought the war in Iraq and destroying Saddam would benefit Israeli security, we're seeing absolutely that the war in Iraq has probably put Israeli security in a more tenuous condition than it's been in since the founding of the Israeli state.