RADICAL MUSLIM LEADERS BELIEVE THEY HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO…

Erdogan wants a caliphate. We Kurds are in his way. Erdogan can't stop us politically, so he is denouncing us as terrorists.

— Selahattin Demirtas

Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of…

— Jeb Bush

I'm just concerned that as long as this caliphate exists, it provides this magnet for radicalization, and we're likely to see more attacks like…

— Adam Schiff

“For the Arabs, and the above all for the 1.2 million Arabs of Palestine, the partitioning of the land in which they had been…

— Larry Collins

If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision .

— David Selbourne

We have to destroy their caliphate because that gives them legitimacy to go ahead with the global Jihad. We have to take their energy…

— Benjamin Carson

A group simply announcing a caliphate, is not enough to establish a caliphate,

— Yusuf al-Qaradawi

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

— Simon Cottee

One great lesson from history we need to keep on re-learning. It is that sometimes your adversaries tell you exactly what they're going to…

— Michael Morell

If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

— Siraj Wahhaj

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert…

— David Hackworth

The caliphate will have been dismantled. It will still be a problem, but that has been our focus because that is the greatest existential…

— Joe Biden

Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.

— Richard Engel

ISIS is going to devolve from physical political emirate, into what Al Qaeda was, which is a covert organization which will go completely underground.…

— Malcolm Wrightson Nance

The less the ISIS 'caliphate' exists as a physical entity, the less the group can claim it is the 'Islamic State' that it purports…

— Peter Bergen