Islamic States Quotes

#1. All talk on Islamic States is just an empty dream. No man in his right sense would accept a nation which bases its political administration on religion, and in a country like Malaysia with its multiracial and multireligious people, there is no room for an Islamic State.

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#2. I think Russia agreed to it because they're facing a revolt of the Islamic States.

Orson Scott Card

#3. The recent failure of democracy to take hold in many African and Islamic states is a reminder that a change in the norms surrounding violence has to precede a change in the nuts and bolts of governance.

Steven Pinker

#4. Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu Government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.

Jeremy Corbyn

#5. We are confident that through discussing with Arab and Islamic states, as well as with the League of Arab States, we will be able to reach a common vision towards maintaining the constants of our people and deal with reality.

Khaled Mashal

#6. Without pain we wouldn't know joy

John Green

#7. I was blinded by whispered promises and I never realised how cruel a woman could be until it was too late.

Emma Russell

#8. Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy.

Simon Cottee

#9. We say our terror against America is blessed terror in order to put an end to suppression, in order for the United States to stop its support to Israel.

Osama Bin Laden

#10. This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

Dinesh D'Souza

#11. The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in parts of the Islamic world). Most people are at ease with the idea that our present biosphere is the outcome of four billion years of Darwinian evolution.

Martin Rees

#12. The realization of 'La ilaha illa Allah' is one of the states of the heart that can be neither expressed by the tongue nor thought out by the mind.

Ibn Ata Allah

#13. The war with Iraq ... had to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in military history. Attacked by a gang composed largely of Islamic militants from Saudi Arabia, the United States countered by invading an unrelated country, and one of the most secular in the Middle East at that.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#14. If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 - presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 - would have been stopped.

Ben Shapiro

#15. You don't become president of the United States unless you've gone through the Islamic one-world-government filter.

Avi Lipkin

#16. I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.

Ibrahim Hooper

#17. Islamic terrorists are the greatest security threats to the United States, both domestically and abroad. We need to be vigilant every day. Now, every citizen has to be vigilant because they are vital links in the national security chain.

Ralph Abraham

#18. We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero ... The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

Christiane Amanpour

#19. I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Noam Chomsky

#20. Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened scholarship and sheer growth is their hope for an Islamic renaissance worldwide.

Murad Wilfried Hofmann

#21. I'll see you off," Daru said. "No," said Balducci. "There's no use being polite. You insulted me.

Albert Camus

#22. [I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.

Christopher Hitchens

#23. 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.

John Boehner

#24. We have a war against Daesh (the Islamic State, or IS) in Syria. A coalition that was led by the United States, with Saudi Arabia being one of the first members of that coalition.

Adel Al-Jubeir

#25. There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

Gary Gygax

#26. President George W. Bush's aggressive war on Islamic terrorism produced a 100 percent perfect track record of keeping the United States safe from another attack. The result has been increased security for the American people, who, in turn, have become complacent about the true nature of the threat.

Monica Crowley

#27. Take heed, Miss Mackay, you're too young to be practicing such a talent for flirtation. Someday, some poor soul may fight back.

Heather Graham

#28. Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing 'rogue states', opposing 'Islamic fundamentalism', or containing China.

Walden Bello

#29. Nothing - not even the US Army - more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.

Marc Cooper

#30. Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarded Islamic society than in the United States, where freedom so often leads to decadence.

Philip Yancey

#31. That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?

Eddie Izzard

#32. Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates?

Hillary Clinton

#33. Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a clash of civilizations. Support for the United States is very low and there are no voices within the Muslim world, except for a very few.

Husain Haqqani