I don't think Mr. Putin has our best interests at heart.
— Michael McCaul
I want to give the American people assurances that we are protecting them.
Our United States military is not our threat.
Obama is dedicated to a 'drip, drip' doctrine.
We have about 200,000 ISIS tweets per day that hit the United States. The chatter is so loud and the volume is so high that it's a problem that's very hard to stop and disrupt in this country.
We cannot stop what we cannot see.
Now we have a generational threat struggle called Islamist extremism.
I cannot support a program that could potentially bring jihadists into the United States.
I think Mrs. Clinton has a lot of weaknesses because she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy.
We do a very good job at fixing broken bodies but not such a great job at healing broken minds with our returning veterans.
When you project weakness throughout the world, and you have a failed foreign policy, this is what you get. And now we have chaos in the Middle East, have ISIS taking over Iraq, Syria, Northern Africa, Egypt.
Violent extremism is going viral, but our response to it is moving at bureaucratic, sluggish speed.
I take ISIS at its word. When they said, in their words, 'We'll use and exploit the refugee crisis to infiltrate the West,' that concerns me.
I think there's kind of a simplistic, kind of knee-jerk response that all you have to do is build a 2,000-mile wall, and problem solved.
The dark space is one of the biggest concerns on the part of counterterrorism officials right now. Comey did a good job of explaining how they jump into a direct messaging box and then go into platforms designed specifically to be secure. There's no way, even if we have a lawful court order, to be able to access those communications.
Social media campaigns and the savviness of ISIS and propaganda is what greatly concerns us Homeland Security officials.
We are ramping up security in the United States but also looking at visa applicants, visa waiver applicants - and looking at travel manifests on the airplanes trying to come into the United States.
Traditionally, you support your nominee for president, and so when I went to Cleveland, I gave a strong speech about Hillary Clinton and her devastating foreign policy, but also in the support of the nominee. I think that's an obligation that we have to support the nominee.
I think Syria is now the training ground for the world... These rebel forces are more of a threat than anything.
I'm a big supporter of our United States military.
We have entered a new phase in Islamist terror. Fifteen years after 9/11, our enemies have regained their momentum.
I don't think Mr. Snowden woke up one day and had the wherewithal to do this all by himself. I think he was helped by others.
I predict you're going to see more and more of this shifting of al Qaeda fighters going over to ISIS because they are the game in town.
Churchill didn't dance around the Nazis; he called it fascism.
Anything I can do to help destroy ISIS, I will support that.
We're seeing Iran now through the Shia militias in Iraq. We're seeing Iran in Syria; we know the Quds Force is in there.
We need to look at how we can better fortify our force protection at military installations. But also, how can we deal with these mental health issues with our returning veterans? And our suicide rate in the military is twice as high as the average population.
We think there should be a better countering-violent-extremism effort, that there should be a lead agency tasked to handle that.
Terror threats to the U.S. homeland have reached unprecedented levels.
We're a compassionate nation.
I know there's a lot of discussion about building a 2000-mile wall. I think we need to complete the Secure Fencing Act, but we need greater technology and aviation aspects down on the Southwest border so we can see the threat from the sky. Until you can see it, you don't know where it's coming from and how to correctly stop it.
ISIS is the greatest threat.
What is our capability when someone posts a public social media posting that says that they're going to conduct attacks on the United States on behalf of the Islamic State. Why can't we pick up that information and then stop that act of terror?
We are in a struggle against the forces of radical Islam and terror, which must be defeated for our children and our grandchildren.
I think, in Washington, getting things for the great people of Texas done is an important job.
This is an unprecedented pace of terror in modern times. And so, to say they're on the run absolutely defies reality.
We need a military strategy to defeat terrorists on the ground.
The threat is real, and it comes from the Internet. This is a new generation of terrorist. This is not Bin Laden in caves with couriers anymore. This is what the new threat of terrorism looks like.
We should be careful not to vilify encryption itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce.
We are monitoring very closely threats against the pope as he comes in to the United States.
We didn't take the words of Vladimir Lenin seriously until Communism spread across the globe. And unfortunately, the president didn't take the words of groups like ISIS seriously until they established a sweeping self-proclaimed Islamic Caliphate.
The sad fact is, because we've had a failed policy and failed leadership, now we're having to rely on Russians and the Iranians to go into Syria to fight and destroy ISIS.
I think a lot of people don't realize that our military that defends our freedoms abroad, when they come home to the military base, are not allowed to carry weapons.
I'm very disturbed about the uptick in shootings and violence at our military installations across the nation.
It is time for President Obama to admit that - in this new age of peer-to-peer terror - we need a real strategy to combat radicalization at home and destroy extremist safe havens abroad.
First and foremost, my job is to protect the American people.
The pope is a very... passionate man. He likes to get out with the people, and with that comes a large security risk.
We talk a lot about operational control, and that's having a better understanding of who's coming in and who's leaving, what the threat really is. We're never really going to get that.
In the radical Islamist jihad world, you're seeing more and more recruits going to ISIS rather than al-Qaida.
We know there are terrorists communicating with individuals in the United States. We just can't see what they're saying.
