Tom Cotton Quotes

Isis Remains! ISIS Expands!.

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

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

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.

Come to the so-called caliphate and live the life of some sort of glory ...; and if you can't come, kill somebody where you are; kill somebody in uniform; kill anybody; if you can cut their head off, great; videotape it; do it; do it; do it.... Kill, kill, kill.

I think ISIS can do terrible things.

I think ISIS is achieving the objectives that they have set out to achieve. I think that they feel probably very emboldened. They feel pretty good. Their resiliency is extraordinary.

Boko Haram has pledged its allegiance and support to ISIS. The Northern Nigerian-based Islamic terrorist group wants Sharia law throughout Nigeria and beyond.

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

We need to view ISIS as an enemy.

The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish their own objectives that have nothing to do whatsoever with the interests of Chechnya.

The terrorists hide behind Allah.

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

Find Al Quaeda and Kill Them

The difference between Al Qaeda and ISIS is that instead of beheading their kidnapped victims, they shoot them in the head.

The real threat comes from terrorism.

Arafat conducts terror; his strategy is the strategy of terror.

What they have done, ISIS is very well outspoken about how much they hate our freedom, who we are as Americans.

ISIS has never fought a real battle.

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

Look at these ISIS people. These people are ruthless. They don't operate by any sort of normal civilized code. That's the world. There's a shadow world that exists out there.

Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas. They're branches of the same tree. People who wantonly rocket our cities and want to conduct mass killings. And when they can, they murder children, teenagers, shoot them in the head. Throw people from the sixth floor, their own people. ... They're the enemies of peace, they're the enemies of Israel, they're the enemies of all civilized countries. And I believe they're the enemies of the Palestinians themselves.

We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem.

Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.