Quotes About ISIS

US policy of recruiting Syrian "moderates" to fight both ISIS and Assad, Biden said that in Syria the US had found "that there was no moderate middle because the moderate middle are made up of shopkeepers, not soldiers." Seldom have the real forces at work in creating ISIS and the present crisis in Iraq and Syria been so accurately described.

When US air strikes began the US did tell the Syrian government when and where they would be, but not the "moderate" rebels whom the US was publicly backing. The American military presumably calculated that anything they told the Free Syrian Army, the loose umbrella group of rebel units, would be known to ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra within minutes.

government and its Iranian and Hezbollah allies. But ISIS was distinguished by its organization, capabilities, fervor, and violence. It proclaimed that the other Islamic rebels, including Al Qaeda, were apostates who were to be killed "wherever you find them.

She [Isis] invented a form of shorthand which she taught to the Egyptians and provided them a way to abridge their excessively involved script.

In America they started to refer to Telegram as 'ISIS's preferred messaging app,' But in reality there are many more legitimate users.

Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like 'carpet-bombing' the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need a war president, is using fear mongering and hate speech. As a citizen of the world, I'm very concerned that this kind of behavior is being cheered on by anyone. It only brings more pain and suffering.

ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using.

ISIS has stated that it intends to infiltrate the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the barbaric ISIS terrorists, using their families as cover.

Nothing is more powerful than hearing from former members of the group that ISIS is not creating an Islamist utopia in the areas it controls, but a hell on earth.

We pulled out of Libya. Now look what's happened: a safe haven, a vacuum, ISIS training militants to hit in Tunisia.

ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.

America is best when we work in collaboration with our allies. America is best when we are actually standing up to evil in this world. And ISIS, make no mistake about it, is an evil in this world.

This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.

If ISIS strikes, it's going to strike Americans - not Republicans or Democrats. This is not partisan politics.

If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.

The head of ISIS called for attacks during the season of Ramadan, which is what you have seen both in Orlando and now in Istanbul at the airport.

What they have done, ISIS is very well outspoken about how much they hate our freedom, who we are as Americans.

A new report says ISIS is trying to recruit professionals like doctors, engineers, and accountants. Sorry, kids, even ISIS says they're not hiring liberal arts majors.

ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We're a life cult. Rock 'n' roll is a life force, and it's joy as an act of defiance.

By July, oil prices were beginning to subside.13 But the consequences of the offensive were startling. With its fanatic but well-organized military drive, ISIS had redrawn, at least for a time, the map at the heart of the Middle East. It now controlled a contiguous territory that reached from north-central Syria all the way across Iraq to Mosul—almost the same distance as from London to Edinburgh—with as many as eight million people under its rule.

the consequences of the offensive were startling. With its fanatic but well-organized military drive, ISIS had redrawn, at least for a time, the map at the heart of the Middle East. It now controlled a contiguous territory that reached from north-central Syria all the way across Iraq to Mosul—almost the same distance as from London to Edinburgh—with as many as eight million people under its rule.

Israel is the vanguard of the free world against the Islamic terrorism of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran.

Even though the moniker 'Vanilla ISIS' is tongue in cheek, it is a reminder to avoid constantly framing the concept of terrorism through an Islam-centric lens.

I would be a rich man if I had a quarter for every time one of my Republican colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee utters some variation of the sentence, 'President Obama doesn't have a strategy to defeat ISIS.' It's their calling card on the committee - and on the campaign trail.