Michael McCaul Quotes

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

We still lack a global definition of terrorism.

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

The entire world is the front line for terrorism.

Today's terrorists can strike at any place, at any time, and with virtually any weapon

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

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

We can't completely isolate ourselves from international terrorism and the problem the world faces.

The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat from radical Islamist terrorists as a whole.

Terrorists are everywhere and, emphatically, not only in Iraq.

We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

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

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

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.

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

Terrorism is only a problem in failed states with significant Muslim populations.

Terrorism has no motherland and terrorists have no nationality.