John McCain

The very fact that each agency of government believes it is responsible for defending the Homeland is emblematic of our dysfunction.

We were hopeful that after years without any serious effort to develop a cyber deterrence policy and strategy from the last administration, the new administration promised one within 90 days of the inauguration.

Our Nation remains woefully unprepared to address these threats, which will be a defining feature of 21st Century warfare.

Threats to the United States in cyberspace continue to grow in scope and severity.

John McCain has talked about the need for a special prosecutor.

We saw the world as it was and we made it better.

To view foreign policy as simply transactional is more dangerous than its proponents realize. Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in.

The purpose of today's hearing is to hear directly from the senior civilian and military leaders responsible for ensuring our special operations forces are trained, equipped, and ready to confront what is the most complex and daunting set…

I am sure that the Russians tried to interfere.

There has to be a price for him to pay in order for us to have a normal relationship.

It should not be an honor. In fact, I wouldn't sit down with either one of them unless there was a tangible result that would come from it.

I do not understand the comment about the North Korean crazy dictator who is capable of cruelty that we can only imagine.

If we don't stand for human rights as a fundamental principle, that doesn't mean that it's the only principle, but it is a fundamental principle, then we're no different than any other country.

We already know that General Flynn didn't report some of the money that he received.

I do and I think that there's cooperation particularly now in the House Intelligence Committee.

Yes. We should have had a CBO estimate.

I'm glad that they got it done and we are bicameral and I believe that the Senate should take it up.

He's absolutely right. And I don't try to tell the House of Representatives how they should conduct themselves, but I know that's not going to be acceptable here in the Senate.

The officer who doesn't know his communications and his supply as well as his tactics is totally useless.

I agree with the witnesses about the importance of the United States-India relationship, which is something that I think has enormous potential as well.

The military option being extremely challenging.

I think if we are going to be serious about this, we probably are going to have to go down that road.

Right now, we have increasing tensions, as we all know, between us and North Korea.

The Asia-Pacific Stability Initiative (APSI) proposed by Senator McCain is a long overdue step in this direction.

The President, therefore, should use the opportunity offered by his appearance at the East Asia summit to clearly affirm America's commitment to maintaining its global primacy.