In Libya, we can put in place, and should, a large-scale, well-resourced U.S.-led effort to build up the new Libyan Army.

Sometimes, the world doesn't cooperate with a Presidential narrative.

if you are talking about homeland security, you have got to in the post 9/11 age protect your borders, all of them, air, sea, land.

I was amazed and moved by the families saying, please make sure that our son, daughter, husband, whatever, didn't die in vain.

But we cannot leave. We did that once. We left the region after the Soviet withdrawal and we paid a major price for that.

I look back first at Afghanistan during the 1990s when... that led right to the 9/11 attacks against us.

Probably no one has done that as much or certainly not more than Joe Lieberman did during the time that he was in the Senate.

the enemy is violent Islamist extremism, a political ideology that seeks to justify totalitarian governance by perverting religion.

The zero option for Afghanistan is the worst option for the United States of America.

I believe in a whole-of-Government approach, but that has to, in these cases, include the U.S. military because al-Qaeda is not a social organization.

In Iraq, we can and should make clear to the government that we are willing to support Iraqis against al-Qaeda with U.S. air power.

if we are not helping the moderates, nonextremists in Syria, if we are sitting back now as Iraq becomes a sanctuary for al-Qaeda...

It was obviously a terrorist attack by any generally-held definition of terrorism, which is the use of violence to achieve a political end or convey a political message.

If we sit back, frankly, it can only get worse.

But, you know, you can overlearn the lessons of the last war. One of them would be to just pull out because the consequences of that would be disastrous for our country and our people.

I would just urge one more time that on a bipartisan basis you attack these problems and show the rest of the House that bipartisanship can thrive, especially when the critical interests of the United States are at stake.

In Afghanistan, we can choose not to squander the gains of the past decade and dishonor the brave Americans who risked and lost their lives there.

There are no easy solutions to this threat. But there are smart, strong steps we can take.

I wish some of the people who rally against the NSA would spend equal time rallying against al-Qaeda.

In my opinion, we do have friends in the countries throughout the Middle East who essentially share our goals.

Because of the failure, in my view, of American leadership, the term 'radical Islam' or 'Islam extremism' is not mentioned in U.S. policy, which is quite astounding.

There should be tweaks, my view, to the laws that we have.

What is happening now is really a remarkable historic development in the Arab world, which is an uprising against dictators, autocrats, by the people.

Still it was terrorism. It is not as if, if you were affected by an awful grotesque anti-Muslim video and your response to that is to attack the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and burn it down and kill the U.S. ambassador, that is not…

If we don't at least maintain a presence, we don't help the freedom fighters in Syria.