Joseph R. Biden Jr. 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.

Terrorism is not a small problem.

I believe, I am pretty certain that virtually everyone speaking from the United Nations platform is going to talk about the fight, about the need to fight terrorism, and I cannot avoid this issue, either. This is quite understandable because it is a serious common threat to all of us; it is a common challenge to all of us.

Obviously it is right that the Afghans take responsibility for their own future in the end, but they need to know and feel that we are there as partners for them if they are prepared to make the necessary changes. But we should be in no doubt as to why we are in Afghanistan. We ended up there because terrorism hatched there erupted thousands of miles away in New York on Sept. 11.

There seems to be some coverage these days that somehow terrorism is not a big problem. Or somehow, national security is all taken care of, and that's just not true.

Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

All together, we know for many years that terror is the most dangerous thing for local, regional and international stability.

Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

Terrorism is not a cause; it is a crime.

We are going to remain an important part of the coalition against ISIL.

We must recognize that we cannot allow the Islamic State to continue to present an existential threat to America.

We need to view ISIS as an enemy.

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

If Pakistan and ISI stop supporting terrorist groups, security situation in South Asia would improve significantly.

Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids and arrests, Libya is dismantling its weapons programs, the army of a free Iraq is fighting for freedom, and more than three-quarters of al-Qaida's key members and associates have been detained or killed. We have led, many have joined, and America and the world are safer.

The news that Osama Bin Laden is dead will bring great relief to people across the world. Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the worst terrorist atrocities the world has seen - for 9/11 and for so many attacks, which have cost thousands of lives, many of them British.

Some say that by fighting the terrorists abroad since September the 11th, we only stir up a hornets' nest. But the terrorists who struck that day were stirred up already. If America were not fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere, what would these thousands of killers do - suddenly begin leading productive lives of service and charity? ... We are dealing here with killers who have made the death of Americans the calling of their lives.

I take the threat of terrorism very seriously, and no one is more committed to hunting down terrorists and bringing them to justice, wherever they live, than I am.

We need to deal with the problem of al Qaeda, make sure that they can't have a sanctuary in Afghanistan and guarantee that we have regional stabilization and particularly focused on Pakistan.

Iran is the world's top sponsor of terrorism, and I am not going to stop until that problem is properly solved.

We are not panicking because we know that Islamic State cannot conquer the capital.

As long as there is a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.

We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.