Lindsey Graham Quotes

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.

Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.

I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.

The Islamic State is dangerous, a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic is even more so.

The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.

Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world.

The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

You know, people have actually changed the way they think about nuclear weapons now, post-Cold War, post-9/11. The threat of nuclear weapons is not so much Russia attacking the United States, China. It's not a state-to-state - it's obviously terrorism; it's proliferation.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.

I think - I think the real nightmare place now is less Afghanistan than it is Pakistan. I mean, again, Pakistan is this gigantic country, deeply troubled, kind of almost ungovernable, sitting on top of probably 50 or 60 nuclear warheads. Nobody really knows where the warheads are; the Americans certainly don't know where they are.

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

The jihadists watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening.

Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East. But it could be brought here.

After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

The era of nuclear terrorism has arrived.

We need to focus on radical Islamic terrorists and we need to stop them before they carry out acts of terror.

If we want to destroy ISIS,if we expect to do this on our own, we will fail but if we do it in unison with people who are also are at risk and threatened by Islamic Radical terrorism, we'll be far more successful.

It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia.