Erdogan wants a caliphate. We Kurds are in his way…

Tayyip Erdogan wants to go beyond George W. Bush by making critical journalism and critics in the academy illegal. What will be the difference…

— Tariq Ali

Erdogan wants an old-fashioned Islam, if you will, for lack of a better term.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Richard Engel

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

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

— David Hackworth

“RADICAL MUSLIM LEADERS BELIEVE THEY HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO RESTORE THE CALIPHATE AND THUS BRING ABOUT THE END OF WORLD HISTORY”

— John Price

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

— Siraj Wahhaj

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

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

— Simon Cottee

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

— Yusuf al-Qaradawi

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

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

— David Selbourne

“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

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

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