Jane Harman

the terrorists won't check our party registrations before they blow us up.

The biggest threats to the U.S. homeland are home-grown, lone-wolf terror attacks and cyber-terror attacks.

Honor the service of those who followed orders and went to Iraq and Afghanistan: 6,000 died, they leave behind families.

We need a narrative and a whole-of-Government approach as much as or more than we need a kinetic approach, in my view.

Engage in a whole-of-Government approach to solve this problem.

Enact cybersecurity legislation so that we are protected against what is a growing threat.

Secretary John Kerry's efforts to negotiate peace in the Middle East and a nuclear deal with Iran are heroic and if successful will have a major impact on stability and security in the region.

We can't leave a force there without a status of forces agreement.

We need to have an effective system that can spot bad guys and prevent and disrupt plots against us.

I never imagined that it would still be in force over a decade later and would be used by the executive branch to underpin a huge variety of actions against disparate enemies.

The anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric is horrible, and I think we have to condemn it.

Islamist political parties are not necessarily bad. I think it is much better to have these religious parties inside the tent...

it is a big part of the counterterrorism--of a good counterterrorism strategy to project tolerance.

I believe these are exactly the conversations we need to have so these do have a strong footing for the years to come.

I advocated a whole-of-government approach to counterterrorism.

it is very smart policing, because if you build trust in a community, they are more likely to come forward.

I think we should put a strict legal framework around the use of drones.

Some of these governments--new governments--have yet to succeed in a way that reflects democratic pluralism or tolerance.

I do not think we want to trade the AUMF, which is outdated and designed for a different problem, for something that may be updated but is overly broad.

There should be an explicit statement that U.S. interests or U.S. persons have to be involved in order for us to target an individual.

We were totally justified in the action we took against Awlaki. No question about it.

I would plead with this committee that these do not become ex-post investigations and excoriations of terrorism professionals, because it will chase the good people out of government.

We have to win the argument with this pipeline of potential recruits.

Congress should have the ability to conduct adequate oversight and to legislate.

I remember the time vividly. We were all here on 9/11... it was terrifying, which is the point of a terror attack.