Marco Rubio Quotes

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

We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.

The fight against radical Islamic terrorists and ISIS has been called the war of our time.

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.

In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.

Obviously, the death of Usama Bin Laden marked a strategic milestone in our effort to defeat al-Qa'ida. Unfortunately, Bin Laden's death, and the death and capture of many other al-Qa'ida leaders and operatives, does not mark the end of that terrorist organization or its efforts to attack the United States and other countries.

We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11, in which al-Qaeda's attacks on America launched the nation into three wars - against Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Islamic State.

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

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.

There is a lot of talk of the growth of radicalization [of Moslems in America]. Yes there has been growth, but between December 11, 2001 and December 31, 2009, we had 46 cases prosecuted… so I would say that the number of extremists are very small. Let’s stay calm.

You cannot fight one terrorist organization by making use of another terrorist organization.

United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.

Somebody's going to have to stand up to ISIS. It is a threat. When we have Americans beheaded, when we have people posing as refugees and become terrorists as in France, this is a scary time in the world.

A real possibility exists that we will be forced to confront, contain, and ultimately defeat radicalism and al-Qaeda alone, or at least with far fewer allies in the region than we had before.

In February 2016, Russia arrested seven alleged ISIS militants who were plotting attacks in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The group included Russians and Central Asians and a ringleader who had come from Turkey.

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

To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.

The success of ISIS is largely tied to the safe haven it has in Syria.

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

We must recognize that we cannot allow the Islamic State to continue to present an existential threat to America.

ISIL is more threatening to the Muslim world than it is to western civilization.

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.

I want to see ISIS destroyed.