Jim Mattis Quotes

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children.

I know the pain of having to deal with terrorism. And that's why, after 9-11, I was one of the first to join the international coalition to fight terrorism.

They may be rich, they may be powerful, they may have atom bombs, but Americans and British are no longer safe anywhere in the world…. They may perhaps be able to put Al-Qaeda out of commission, but that does not mean that there will not be other groups. They have been killing so-called terrorist all these years, but there'll simply be more and more terrorists

I have always wondered why the Muslim world is in the eye of virtually every storm, in my lifetime at least?

Every Arab government supports the causes which inspired 9-11.

Syria is hosting the most dangerous terrorist organizations.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

Less than a year after the Sept. 11 attacks, al-Qaida attacks were continuing: the firebombing of a synagogue in Tunisia in April, a bomb outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi in June.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.

The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them.

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization, and this enemy is international terrorism associated with religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance.

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

The war on terror is a struggle that will last for generations.

Osama bin Martin

We need Hasan Nasrallah, millions of Hasan Nasrallahs. We need millions of Osama bin Ladens. We need millions of people armed with real active rage…. if self-defense, and defending our values, our identity, our culture, and our religion is terrorism, then we welcome every type of terrorism on the face of the earth.

When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists are Muslims! …. Our terrorist sons are an end-product of our corrupted culture.

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.