Donald Trump Quotes

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.

I think that ISIS is a problem and it's really a symptom of a much greater problem.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

When I first raised the issue of the so-called Islamic State at the Munich Security Conference in February, speaking about its economy, its flexibility and pathology, people thought I was trying to scare them. But now we have experienced just that. If al-Qaida was version 2.0 of terror, then the Islamic State is version 5.0.

Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

It is time we learnt that a terrorist is no man's friend and everyman's enemy.

I think what happened with 9/11 is that people sort of felt that it came from nowhere. Whereas I think now we understand the roots are very deep. I say it's like revolutionary Communism, something that is going to have to be knocked out over a very long period of time. This strain of extremism continues to be very strong, whether it's in Afghanistan, or Somalia or Yemen, or any of these places.

Jihadists are acting against the interests of every single country.

Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

They may be rich, they may be powerful, they may have atom bombs, but Americans and British are no longer safe anywhere in the world…. They may perhaps be able to put Al-Qaeda out of commission, but that does not mean that there will not be other groups. They have been killing so-called terrorist all these years, but there'll simply be more and more terrorists

You cannot fight one terrorist organization by making use of another terrorist organization.

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

I think ISIS can do terrible things.

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

The Islamic State is using medieval tactics.

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

Anytime ISIS takes ground, it's a bad thing.

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

We need to view ISIS as an enemy.

Shortly after news of Zarqawi's death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people.

More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.

When you say that terrorism, particularly ISIS, radicals or terrorists being contained, that are the jayvee team, we don't have to worry about them anymore and then people are being killed in Nice, in Berlin, certainly in Orlando at the nightclub, in San Bernardino, in Paris, in Brussels, it doesn't ring true to anybody that they're not advancing. It doesn't ring true to anybody.