Tom Cotton Quotes

Isis Remains! ISIS Expands!.

ISIS is a battle-hardened, highly trained organization that is well-funded. They're one of the strongest armies in the world for their size.

ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally.

The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

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

This ISIS group, they attack Muslims more than they attack anyone else.

The tentacles of Islamic State are far-reaching, and the restrained and tepid international response that Mr. Obama has pursued will not eliminate this terrorist organization.

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

Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.

We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.

Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding.

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.

Al Qaeda is an entity trapped in medieval ages and bent on killing innocent Muslims.

There are very few fighters in the ISIS organization in Iraq and Syria coming from the United States; most of them have either come from a region of the Middle East or from Europe.

Nothing is more powerful than hearing from former members of the group that ISIS is not creating an Islamist utopia in the areas it controls, but a hell on earth.

The fact is, the Middle East has been going crazy for 50, 60, 70 years. So it's not like, 'Oh, I need an ISIS joke.'

Somebody's going to have to stand up to ISIS. It is a threat. When we have Americans beheaded, when we have people posing as refugees and become terrorists as in France, this is a scary time in the world.

For Islamist terrorist groups such as ISIS, the holy month of Ramadan - a time of fasting and prayer for the vast majority of Muslims - is seen as a particularly auspicious time to launch terrorist attacks.

I do not believe that the Sunni tribes have gone over to the Islamic State.

I predict you're going to see more and more of this shifting of al Qaeda fighters going over to ISIS because they are the game in town.

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

Under Obama's intentional neglect, the most barbaric force in modern history - the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) - has taken form as a monstrous hoard and, like a hurricane, gathered power.