Political Quotes

“I wish we were wrong too. The worst is yet to come. I hate to be saying this all the time, but as they are losing territory in Iraq, which they are, and they are being hurt some in Syria, which they are, they are becoming a lethal terrorist organization. They are a terrorist army now holding territory. All I can say is that you could see this coming a mile away if you spent any time looking. The biggest flaw of the President of the United States, I believe, is that he doesn't think we are at war. He thinks this is a counterterrorism problem, that these are wayward souls or religious fanatics, and he doesn't embrace the fact that radical Islam is loosely associated throughout the globe. They have an agenda to destroy our way of life, to purify their religion, to destroy the State of Israel. It is on the Sunni and the Shia side. It represents a small minority of the Islamic faith. When you talk about radical Islam, you are not slandering those who are fighting radical Islam. They don't feel slandered. I have been to Iraq and Afghanistan with Senator McCain over 37 times. I have yet to have one leader in that part of the world tell me: Would you quit using the term ``radical Islam.'' They appreciate the fact that we understand the threat and that what we have been proposing would actually work. The JV team here is in the White House. I really don't mean to slander JV teams.…”