Militant Group Quotes

Hamas is a murderous gang of terrorists.

Hamas has territorial ambitions on Israel. In fact, that’s putting it too mildly: it would like to replace Israel in its entirety with a Muslim Brotherhood-ruled state. Israel has no territorial ambitions on Hamas-ruled Gaza. To the contrary, Israel left it totally 13 years ago, with the hope of never having to return.

Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.

I can in one week assemble five hundred faithful ready to throw themselves into suicide operations. No frontier will stop them.

I don't believe ISIS is real.

But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.

We need to view ISIS as an enemy.

Saudi Arabia might proceed toward Sharia slower than Al-Qaeda wants. Al-Qaeda wants pedal-to-the-metal, nothing else in focus, we’re heading to Sharia, and the Saudis might not be going there fast enough, so Al-Qaeda hits them.

Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.

Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

I don’t talk to the Taliban.

The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda.

There is a direct correlation between what al Qaeda says and what it does. And the one thing that has been the gold standard of correlation has been bin Laden's 1995 - or was it 1996? - pledge that every attack is going to be more powerful than the last. If you go back to the first attack in Yemen in 1992 and chart it out, every attack has been more powerful, more destructive than the last one.

If crime fighters fight crime, and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

I was there when APLA was started in somebody's living room.

Hezbollah poses a great threat to the world - and particularly to our great ally, Israel.

Saying that the origin of the Islamic State (IS) is within the Muslim Brotherhood organisation only strengthens IS. This is what the Israeli government asserts when claiming that Hamas and IS are the exact same thing. By saying so, the historical resistance [against the Israeli occupation] is viewed as unlawful, called extremism and terrorism.

For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.

Under Obama's intentional neglect, the most barbaric force in modern history - the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) - has taken form as a monstrous hoard and, like a hurricane, gathered power.

Hamas is a terror organization with a covenant that speaks about the elimination of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. They are not partners for negotiations.

I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.

Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it's not about containing but destroying this organisation.

More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.

ISIL is dangerous. They're a threat. They're a brutal, horrible force that needs to be dealt with.

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.