Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.

We don't have enough American troops inside of Iraq to destroy ISIL any time soon.

We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.

As we keep up the pressure, our air campaign will continue to hit ISIL harder than ever.

Even the U.S. government agrees that some Saudi figures have been supporting ISIL, or ISIS.

The point is ISIL leaders cannot hide. And our next message to them is simple - you are next.

As part of the coalition against ISIL, we are putting that terrorist network under tremendous pressure.

We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.

Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.

What we have done is when the threat has been directed at the United States, i.e., the terrorist threat from ISIL or Al-Qaeda in Syria, is to go after them.

We are going to start winning again. We don't win on trade, we can't beat Isil. We are going to win so much. We are going to make America greater than ever before.

If 90 percent or 95 percent of those - chemical stockpiles [in Syria] were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that are not right now in the hands of ISIL or Nusra or, for that matter, the regime.

Lieutenant al-Kaseasbeh's dedication, courage and service to his country and family represent universal human values that stand in opposition to the cowardice and depravity of ISIL, which has been so broadly rejected around the globe.

A change of strategy suggests there is a strategy. I don't see a strategy that deals with - that concerns with dealing wit with ISIL overall. There is some sort of strategy for dealing with it in Iraq. I'm not sure there is one in Syria. And Libya is another problem altogether.

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