Joe Lieberman

In Syria, we can and should much more aggressively provide militarily-relevant support to non-extremist rebel forces.

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

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.

Our safety as a Nation is ultimately inseparable from our ability to meet the fullness of the threat.

In politics, we are talking about spying, about snooping.

I believe the goal is to have the bilateral security agreement signed not later than November 2013.

I will provide a copy of my e-mails pertaining to my work on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to the National Archives.

We want rookie police officers who are alert enough to pick out things like that...

In the aftermath of Boston, one of things he was concerned about were Attorneys General's guidelines.

If we don't do that, we are going to lose a lot of these hints.

It is absurd to say that there isn't a connection between these things.

I think that being honest about what we face will make that citizenry more willing to come forward...

I think you shouldn't feel any kind of guilt about going back and examining these situations where we fail with excruciating analysis, because that is the only way we will prevent these things in the future.

I would have treated them both as enemy combatants for the purpose question of questioning endlessly.

I think it is a very, very good point that the reality is that we keep referring to these individuals as isolated acts, single individuals, that is true, they are isolated, single individuals, but they are also connected, it is not as if…

I think it is exceedingly damaging to engage in this fiction that the attack at Fort Hood was workplace violence.

The fact that the FBI is not sharing information with this committee which has jurisdiction over Homeland Security, I think is just totally unacceptable.

I think the FBI has a lot to explain for here and I am not trying to be a Monday morning quarterback.

The fear of incorrectly identifying Tsarnaev as a suspected Muslim extremist might have played a role in not taking all the steps that seemed prudent

The tyranny of political correctness has been extended so far that Major Hasan's actions have been labeled as 'workplace violence.'

You can't fight an enemy you don't acknowledge

We must purge ourselves of the practice of political correctness when it interferes with our rational and intellectually honest analysis

Nobody should be defensive about describing something as Islamic terrorism.

We could try to engage more with moderate, sensible, mainstream members of the Muslim and Islamic community.

It is not about Israel and Palestine. That is a side issue.