Morgan Ortagus Quotes

Let's have a conversation about how we destroy ISIS.

The survival of ISIS's ideology is success enough for them. We must spare no effort in denying ISIS this success.

ISIS and radical Islamic terrorism will face no more determined foe than I will be.

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

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden was losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, not because the United States was winning them, but because al-Qaida was simply losing them.

One thing is certain: we will not be successful in this fight against ISIS and other extremist groups unless countries in the region are a major part of the coalition.

We need to eradicate these terrorist groups, wherever they are. If we failed to do it, we are just waiting for the next.

ISIS takes a long-term approach to its apocalyptic war with West - we have to do the same.

Islamic State is not a threat for any particular country but for the entire world. India is alert about IS.

We need to make sure these Islamic terrorist organizations don't become mainstream. We're fighting an ideology as much as a group of radical terrorists.

This issue of terrorism is as much an issue for Pakistan as it is a Western issue.

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.

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.

We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.

Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.

The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.

I know the pain of having to deal with terrorism. And that's why, after 9-11, I was one of the first to join the international coalition to fight terrorism.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

I would argue it should be a policy to defeat ISIS where they are, where they exist and prevent them from coming into the United States.

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.

Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before.