Their behavior in regards to what General LaPorte has already indicated in regards to crime, drugs, and kidnappings, etc., is deplorable.

The President's national security strategy is simple: prevent a nuclear, chemical, or biological weapon from ever being detonated in the United States.

They all represent unique geopolitical circumstances demanding tailored solutions.

We have an obligation to meet with a number of men and women in uniform on the front lines.

It's not that simple and we ought not to mistake complexities in the threat picture for contradictions in policy.

I think we did not need two tips and two spears; we needed one tip and one spear.

If the Senator would yield, I will be happy to be a blocking back for him any time on this decision, and we will just let you carry the ball, sir.

Is it Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, Supreme Leader Ali Khamani in Iran, or Osama bin Laden? They are all major threats.

It seems to me that they have stated their basic purpose of any direct negotiations would be a nonaggression pact.

We have no choice but to deal right now with those axis of evil regimes with links to the new apocalyptic terror groups.

I hope we do not spend too much time today arguing about who constitutes the greatest threat to us right this second.

nothing could be farther from the truth.

I want to go back to the suggestion that some have made in regards to direct negotiations with North Korea and Kim Jong Il.

It's about preventing hundreds of thousands of Americans from dying in an instant.

Thank you Mr. Chairman. I, too, want to offer my welcome to our distinguished witness today.

That's what the axis of evil is all about: Iran, Iraq, and, yes, North Korea.

This shows the importance the President has placed on these nonproliferation programs.

I am concerned about post-Castro Cuba and I am concerned about trying to establish some tie of entrepreneurship, some tie so that democracy--I am not trying to get into the Cuban-American situation at all.