Michael McCaul Quotes

Iraq is falling apart.

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

Failed states have become breeding grounds for conflict.

Bashar Assad's power over the areas of Syria under government control is slipping. Armed militias are growing stronger and the country's dictator can do nothing to stop them. Now, these fighters are taking over control in many areas, committing murder, looting and harassing civilians. And nobody can stop them, not even Assad himself. Indeed, the militias are now more powerful than even the country's dictator and have become the real holders of power in Syria.

Yemen is one of the most dangerous spots in the world.

Libya is a huge disaster.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

Syria cannot continue this way—killing their people

Benghazi was a tragedy. Libya is a tragedy.

Bad things usually don't happen by themselves in Iraq.

Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.

Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but none has as long a history of war, resistance, and terror as Chechnya.

What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.

The Gates of Hell have been opened in Iraq.

Syria has become the great tragedy of the century—a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

Terrorism often finds a home in states mired in civil war …

ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.

I've often said that the ISIS-Syria-Iraq mess is about as bad as it could be.

I think about Syria when I go to bed at night.

We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.

By 2007, Iraqi society had completely collapsed.

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.