Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from Maine, especially because, as he mentioned in his previous comments, he sits on the Intelligence Committee and so he is, frankly, privy to information he likely cannot state on the floor but is directly on point, which is this notion these terrorist groups, whether it be Al Qaeda or ISIS, now are more dependent than ever on inspiring and launching lone-wolf attacks. Why? Because they are losing ground in Syria and in Iraq, and this notion there was going to be an inevitable caliphate that was going to grow and prosper and control large amounts of territory in the Middle East is no longer a reality. As someone earlier today said on the floor, there is a record-low trickle of American citizens today going abroad--maybe it was my colleague from Maine--to join Al Qaeda, which suggests how their pull, how their gravitational pull has been greatly reduced. It means there are right ways and wrong ways to engage in this second front, this effort to try to launch lone-wolf attacks. The wrong way is to marginalize Muslim communities in this country by telling them they are less than, by telling them they are threats, by nature of their ethnicities or their religion, to the United States.”