Michael McCaul Quotes

The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat from radical Islamist terrorists as a whole.

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

The War on Terror is a religious war … We are dealing with a set of ideas that kill.

Terrorism is perpetrated by individuals and cannot be blamed on any one religion, be it Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity.

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

Al Qaeda is an entity trapped in medieval ages and bent on killing innocent Muslims.

I support Al-Qaeda when it kills Americans.

The entire world is the front line for terrorism.

I will lead a fight against Islamist terrorism at every level.

Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity.

What we have seen with Islamist extremism, whether it is in Mali or Somalia or Afghanistan, is that the disease is not necessarily the individual country. The disease is the Islamist extremism, and that's what we have to fight; that's the narrative that we have to beat.

In the radical Islamist jihad world, you're seeing more and more recruits going to ISIS rather than al-Qaida.

ISIS is the greatest threat.

We are in a struggle against the forces of radical Islam and terror, which must be defeated for our children and our grandchildren.

There is no doubt something has happened that is lasting in terms of attractiveness of the nightmare that is the Islamic State.

Pakistan and its associates find it difficult to understand that there are no 'good terrorists and bad terrorists.'

The threat from radical Islam is real.

Terrorism knows no boundaries and doesn't respect nations' sovereignties.

There is no doubt that terrorists acting under the banner of Islam have declared war on us.

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.

We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against 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.

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.

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.

On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.