Michael McCaul Quotes

Where the West has intervened in African domestic affairs, such as it did in Libya 2011, the country became a cradle of extremism that exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to the rest of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

ISIS happened a number of years ago in a vacuum that was left because of bad judgment. And I will tell you, I will take care of ISIS.

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

The entire world is the front line for terrorism.

Syria is hosting the most dangerous terrorist organizations.

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

We're in a war with ISIS and we need a leader who understands exactly what that means.

ISIS was able to grow because the Obama administration stuck its head in the sand rather than address the emerging problem.

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.

I think it is absolutely correct to solve the problem of terrorism in Iraq and Syria and Libya.

Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'

… terrorism is a plague in our countries. It compounds our development problems.

Isis Remains! ISIS Expands!.

One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.

We must take all that territory away from ISIS.

The fact is, the Middle East has been going crazy for 50, 60, 70 years. So it's not like, 'Oh, I need an ISIS joke.'

The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other deeper problems.

ISIS is the greatest threat.

The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to see a son of ISIS, or even a grandson of ISIS, developing in the years to come.

When you project weakness throughout the world, and you have a failed foreign policy, this is what you get. And now we have chaos in the Middle East, have ISIS taking over Iraq, Syria, Northern Africa, Egypt.

Anything I can do to help destroy ISIS, I will support that.