Mike Pompeo Quotes

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.

ISIS is a terrorist organization. It is a terrorist organization that the world must unite against.

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.

I would like to see us find Osama Bin Laden, but let's say we did capture him. Let's say we did kill him. How much good would that do? There's still thousands of people behind him. It's this huge thing.

No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

Al Qaeda has significance beyond its numbers, frankly. And so for us, our 24-hour-a-day objective is to seek out those al Qaeda cells. And, as we seek them out, to target them and eliminate them. And we're doing that 24 hours a day.

It's clearly the intent of the Islamic State to strike us here in the United States. And that's why we have to go on offense in the war against the Islamic State to fight them where they are before they fight us here in the United States.

ISIS is the greatest threat.

To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.

I'm not hard to find unless you're ISIS - then, it's a rough night.

The tentacles of Islamic State are far-reaching, and the restrained and tepid international response that Mr. Obama has pursued will not eliminate this terrorist organization.

ISIS takes a long-term approach to its apocalyptic war with West - we have to do the same.

Islamic State is not a threat for any particular country but for the entire world. India is alert about IS.

Anytime ISIS takes ground, it's a bad thing.

From the moments Obama took office, he has downplayed the threats from radical Islamists.

America must keep jihad out, especially when we know exactly where it is coming from.

You listen to the intelligence community, they say, listen, maybe it's ISIS today, it's somebody else tomorrow. We'll deal with the caliphate, but it's going to take years to be able to handle this.

Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.

Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.

This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.

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.

The terrorists hide behind Allah.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.