Donald Trump Quotes

The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.

If we … are going to ask the decent, silent majority of Muslim men -- and women -- to have the courage to face down the extremist bullies, then we need to have the courage and character to stand shoulder to shoulder with them doing it.

If we want to destroy radical Islamic terrors, we can't disassociate ourselves from peace loving Muslims.

The terrorists do not speak for over a billion Muslims who reject their hateful ideology.

Muslim communities are the ones that going to see radicalization happening at a mosque or hear it in the community or even among their own family members. And the other part is that there is a narrative that ISIS and other jihadists pose that this is a war between Muslims and the rest of the world.

The threat from the far right is as corrosive as the twisted Islamist ideologies so many Muslims have spoken out against.

Since 9/11 we have somehow come to accept the 'radicalization' narrative, which basically holds that people become terrorists through a series of consecutive, traceable steps laid out for them by large international Islamic organizations. Reality is messier, and also smaller.

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.

The threat from radical Islamic jihadists is real and needs to be taken seriously.

We need to view ISIS as an enemy.

It annoys me right-wing extremism is not equated to Islamic extremism.

In rhetoric and action, the Trump administration has aggrandized 'radical Islamic terror,' thus making what Madison called a 'favorable emergency' more likely.

British intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan swelled the grievances home-grown fanatics fed off, while al Qaeda morphed and re-grouped in lawless sanctuaries from Somalia to Yemen.

We're facing an enemy today in the Islamic State that knows no national boundaries. It doesn't have a moral code of conduct.

From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews.

I have clearly said we faced terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people and we have to stop them and we will. We have to defeat radical jihadist terrorism.

Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed.

I think the American people pretty well understand that radical Islam has an agenda that includes us.

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

Just because you're interested in what jihad is doesn't mean you intend to join.

There is no problem with Islam itself or with the Muslims, but these are difficult times, and the difficulty stems from radical Islam.

I think it's important to understand that ISIS's biggest enemy are ordinary Muslims. That's why they're fleeing.

What you have to be concerned about are the extremists. On the whole, we need to understand the more moderate Muslims before they become more radicalized.

I would say, we have had a lot of problems with radical Islamic terrorism, that's what I'd say. We have had a lot of problems where you look at San Bernardino, you look at Orlando, you look at the World Trade Center, you look at so many different things. You look at what happened to the priest over the weekend in Paris, where his throat was cut, 85-year-old, beloved Catholic priest. You look at what happened in Nice, France.