John Hewson Quotes

In choosing to use violent extremism as an instrument of policy, the government of Pakistan, and most especially the Pakistani Army and ISI, jeopardizes not only the prospect of our strategic partnership but Pakistan’s opportunity to be a respected nation with legitimate regional interest.

What starts in the Middle East never stays in the Middle East..

The issue that Mr. Trump is talking about and which, really, frankly, I expect the media should be talking about is protecting the American homeland from national security risks and terrorists.

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

I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.

As of September 2012, 168 out of the 602 released Guantanamo Bay detainees are suspected of returning to terrorism. So, is this a winning scenario for the United States? Of course not.

The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.

Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

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

As symbols of national power representing the people government of the United States, our embassies have become obvious targets for terror.

If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?

If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.

Hezbollah poses a great threat to the world - and particularly to our great ally, Israel.

There's been intelligence that terrorists would look to programs such as the visa waiver program to exploit.

In my experience, given how large the border is and given how many people are coming across the border, I mean, look, if a child can come across the border, and we know there's hundreds of thousands of children that have, then what makes you think that ISIS and terrorists can't?

I was elected prime minister in 2014 under incredibly difficult circumstances: A third of the country was overrun by terrorists, the economy was struggling, people were divided by sectarianism, and relations with the wider world were strained.

If you challenge the constitution and if you challenge the borders of Iraq and the borders of the region, this is a public invitation to the countries in the region to violate Iraqi borders as well, which is a very dangerous escalation.

One of the most significant threats to our national security was and is home-grown Islamist terrorism.

If you don't win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn't exist anymore.

If we leave Iraq, terrorists will follow us home.

If war explodes in Sudan, it could have a destabilizing effect that creates more space for terrorist activity that could eventually be directed at our homeland.

Pakistan is a nation, which, if it falls apart, if it becomes a failed state, there are nuclear weapons there and you've got terrorists there who could grab their hands onto those nuclear weapons.

[Saddam Hussein] is a threat because he is dealing with al-Qaeda. . . . A true threat facing our country is that an al-Qaeda-type network trained and armed by Saddam could attack America and not leave one fingerprint.