Government Quote by Ryan Zinke

Many Sunnis joined Islamic State because they felt they were being treated poorly. Winning back their trust is the primary task of the new…

— Ahmed Chalabi

We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some kind of…

— Gertrude Bell

The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government - quite unlike…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

ISIL is not 'radical Islam.' Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah, the Muslim Brotherhood - these are radical Islamic groups. They resort to armed struggle and terrorism…

— Malcolm Nance

Let me begin by saying that we have to understand who ISIS is. ISIS is a radical Sunni group. They cannot just be defeated…

— Marco Rubio

Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq…

— Jimmy Carter

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

— Peter DeFazio

The one thing that unites Sunni, Shiites and Kurds is they want the Americans out.

— Tony Benn

The Iraqi government will try and retake some of the cities have that been captured by ISIS. That means the Shiite government dropping bombs…

— Richard Engel

Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.

— Trent Lott

ISIS is a radical jihadist group that is increasingly sophisticated in its ability, for example, to radicalize American citizens, in its inability to exploit…

— Marco Rubio

The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other…

— Peter Bergen