James Comey Quotes

We need to make sure these Islamic terrorist organizations don't become mainstream. We're fighting an ideology as much as a group of radical terrorists.

Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.

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

Now we have a generational threat struggle called Islamist extremism.

The number of fighters that are ISIS fighters wouldn't fill up most American football stadiums. This is not a large group of individuals, but they're tenacious, and they rule with absolute terror.

ISIL is inspiring groups that already exist to rebrand themselves, but in rebranding themselves into a more radical ideology. That's what makes it dangerous.

If al-Qaida, all apologies to Microsoft for the analogy, is Windows 1, Daish is Windows 5.

ISIL is a terrorist army like we have never seen - they cannot be ignored.

There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

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

What we have seen with Islamist extremism, whether it is in Mali or Somalia or Afghanistan, is that the disease is not necessarily the individual country. The disease is the Islamist extremism, and that's what we have to fight; that's the narrative that we have to beat.

If you call it al-Qaida or bin Ladenism or jihadism, whatever you call it, it's proliferated.

I think these al Qaeda franchise groups have clearly evolved into a much more dangerous strain.

Not all of the Islamic State killers are going to die on the battlefield.

The less the ISIS 'caliphate' exists as a physical entity, the less the group can claim it is the 'Islamic State' that it purports to be.

If the Islamic State is losing, if they are defeated in Iraq and Syria, or in Libya, which is maybe their most dangerous and most well-developed cell today, then they won't inspire nearly so many attacks.

We can put a stake through the heart of Islamic State as an army. We can put a stake through the heart of its leaders. You can take away its territory. But you can't put a stake through the heart of the ideas, of the ideology, that sadly, tragically, still has some attraction for some small numbers in the Islamic faith.

Pakistan and its associates find it difficult to understand that there are no 'good terrorists and bad terrorists.'

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

Hamas and Hezbollah operate within geopolitical norms. They can be negotiated and reasoned with. ISIL is a different animal altogether - a religious cult an order of magnitude more extreme than even the most extreme Islamic groups of the past.

ISIS takes a long-term approach to its apocalyptic war with West - we have to do the same.

We will continue to work around the world to beat ISIS about where they may exist, these are horrible ideologies or murderous ideologies.

Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.