Bernie Sanders Quotes

ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.

If you call it al-Qaida or bin Ladenism or jihadism, whatever you call it, it's proliferated.

Fundamentalism is still on the march.

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.

America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

The terrorists hide behind Allah.

The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.

I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.

Al Qaeda is an entity trapped in medieval ages and bent on killing innocent Muslims.

Extremism and terrorism are based on lack of hope and an ideology that takes advantage of that.

Now we have a generational threat struggle called Islamist extremism.

You cannot stop an Islamist tsunami by building a small island somewhere in the ocean.

We have to face the fact that ISIS and its army of like-minded jihadists are determined to win that war and believe they are on the path to victory. They may well be right.

What we have seen with Islamist extremism, whether it is in Mali or Somalia or Afghanistan, is that the disease is not necessarily the individual country. The disease is the Islamist extremism, and that's what we have to fight; that's the narrative that we have to beat.

Put simply, we are still at war with radical Islamic groups and an ideological movement that can't be ignored nor wished away.

This ISIS group, they attack Muslims more than they attack anyone else.

Terrorist groups share an agenda of authoritarianism, misogyny, and intolerance. They are an affront to the common values encapsulated in the U.N. Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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

Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.

Hamas and Hezbollah operate within geopolitical norms. They can be negotiated and reasoned with. ISIL is a different animal altogether - a religious cult an order of magnitude more extreme than even the most extreme Islamic groups of the past.

The aim of militants such as Boko Haram, whose very name means 'Western education is a sin,' is to sow hatred and enmity between Muslim and Christian communities, which have co-existed largely peacefully for generations. Education, in particular the education of women, is a threat to Boko Haram's goals.

The rise of ISIS has exposed the darkest side of humanity - at times manifesting their violent ideology at our very doorsteps.

Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.