Michael McCaul Quotes

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are seeking deadlier weapons - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons if they can get it.

The chief al Qaeda recruiting tool is the net.

We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda.

Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding.

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

Find Al Quaeda and Kill Them

We are at war with Al Qaeda and its affiliates.

Al Qaeda’s presence in Pakistan and Yemen … is facilitated less by the states’ weakness than by the ruling regime’s unwillingness to combat Islamic extremism—and indeed, their decision to embrace jihadi groups.

The acronym ISIS stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. But increasingly, we see that it's not limited there. We see it in Egypt. We see it in Libya. We see it in Afghanistan.

There are very few fighters in the ISIS organization in Iraq and Syria coming from the United States; most of them have either come from a region of the Middle East or from Europe.

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.

Syria is hosting the most dangerous terrorist organizations.

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

I think these al Qaeda franchise groups have clearly evolved into a much more dangerous strain.

If al-Qaida, all apologies to Microsoft for the analogy, is Windows 1, Daish is Windows 5.

At least 10 ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the border in Texas.

We're dealing with an enemy now, ISIS, that has a very sophisticated social media program.

ISIS has leadership, just like al Qaeda has leadership. It's important to be able to eliminate the individuals that are leading the organization.

I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.

Al Qaeda is a racially diverse organization that is well aware of its dependence on a labor pool dominated by Arab Muslim men. It also has an adaptable and fluid counterintelligence mind-set.

I've dealt with the Taliban and al Qaeda.

British intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan swelled the grievances home-grown fanatics fed off, while al Qaeda morphed and re-grouped in lawless sanctuaries from Somalia to Yemen.

You know who's upset now with ISIS? Al Qaeda. It's because ISIS is getting more attention than Al Qaeda. So now, Saturday night will be Ayman al-Zawahiri bobblehead night.