I just wonder, gentlemen, whether or not in your assessment and in your report we're trying to get at something through procedures that is almost impossible to prevent.

The Department should thoughtfully consider a wide range of options and exercise due caution to avoid infringing on civil liberties.

Mr. Secretary, the question is, can this and will this happen again? God knows we don't want it to.

I may go on record as also objecting to the comment that was made by the distinguished Senator from Oklahoma in reference to profiling.

The Nation, and more importantly, the families, are looking to all of us to make sense of this situation and provide them with answers and solutions to ensure that this type of incident does not occur in the future.

in a country with extreme poverty that's been at war for decades, there will also be no peace without reconciliation among former enemies . . . There is an uncompromising core of the Taliban. They must be met with force, and they must be…

This is who we are. We will pursue our values because this is what Americans are.

I saw Republicans and Democrats come together to work together with the President to find out what went wrong and to make sure it did not happen again.

I will hold my staff, our agencies, and the people in them accountable when they fail to perform their responsibilities at the highest level.

Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.

For now is not a time for partisanship, it's a time for citizenship--a time to come together and work together with the seriousness of purpose that our National security demands.

The United States supports a unified, stable, democratic and prosperous Yemen.

Our response to the incident has to be swift but also thoughtful.

I just wonder, in our democracy, as I was watching the news on this issue of that Detroit bomber...

If I were a terrorist, I would not go after Chicago, I would not go after New York. You know where I would go? I would go to my hometown of Centralia, Illinois, where there are 14,000 people, and raise havoc in there which would scare…

I mean, I did see a movie just recently coming back from China...

I understand that intelligence was gathered from this person prior to him being given his rights.

It makes sense to me because that was my immediate reaction when I see this list reported on television...