Porter Goss Quotes

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.

No doubt, the fight against ISIS is deadly serious, as was the raid that took down their elusive leader.

Terrorists are everywhere and, emphatically, not only in Iraq.

The Taliban is resilient.

In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

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

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

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

More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

Syria is hosting the most dangerous terrorist organizations.

Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.

The fact that a terrorist was killed, and it doesn't matter if it was in Dubai or Gaza, is good news to those fighting terrorism.

I've dealt with the Taliban and al Qaeda.

Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

We understand that ISIS is a group that's growing in its governance of territory. It's not just Iraq and Syria. They are now a predominant group in Libya. They are beginning to pop up in Afghanistan. They are increasingly involved now in attacks in Yemen. They have Jordan in their sights. This group needs to be confronted with serious proposals.

In this global war against extremists who use murder as a weapon, Iraq is now the central front.

I close with two words, ‘Kill ISIS!’ God bless you all!

ISIS is a monstrosity. It didn't come from nowhere. It's one of the results of the U.S. hitting a very vulnerable society - Iraq - with a sledgehammer.

What is happening in the Sahel for the past several months is that terrorists have structured themselves, have installed themselves. It's not simply a menace for west Africa.

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

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

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.