Joe Lieberman

I hope that one of the things that may come out is that Congress again take a look at itself.

You have to talk to friends, neighbors, and people in their house of worship.

There is a danger if you think that the enemy is al-Qaeda, and you observe that bin Laden is killed, and central al-Qaeda is on the run, you may be lured into believing that the war is over.

But obviously, that is one of the places where the system broke down.

We don't want to cut back in our support of State and local law enforcement because they are where it is.

If we want to go where the problem seems to be most serious right now, this ideology of violent Islamist extremism among homegrown radicals.

There must be something that we have done that said, look, there is an immediacy to this.

I firmly believe that law enforcement, in addition to all of the citizens of our community are really critical to that effort.

I agree with you. Again, as you said, hindsight is always clearer.

I think in some sense it is unfair to the overwhelming majority of Muslims in the world... to leave it unspoken.

It was self-evidently and publicly violent Islamist extremism that led to the attacks against us on that 9/11/01.

I am really encouraged by what I take to be a totally nonpartisan approach in a committee to finding out what went wrong here.

You can't fight this war without resources.

We are in a war, and as I said, it is against an ideology that is not receding.

To put it bluntly, our homeland defense system failed in Boston.

The cost of silence as we learned again on April 15 can be enormous.

Shouldn't the fact that the first notice of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's possible radicalization came to us from a very uncommon source, Russian intelligence, have marked the case for special handling by our Government, and guaranteed that this…

I urge you to try to determine whether it was... whether lingering failures to share information... made it more difficult to prevent the Boston attack.

Our goal is a very difficult one here, to protect lives, we have to be right 100 percent of the time.

If you recognize that, it makes it easier to catch them, it makes it easier to find the clues and the things that would lead to who they are and why they are doing what they are doing.

Unfortunately, the rhetoric perpetrated by the administration that the threat of al-Qaeda is diminishing and that its franchises are less dangerous is not the reality that the United States faces today.

Ultimately, as we refine our post-9/11 counterterrorism policies, this type of failure to follow up must not continue.

I said when I started this investigation that we were going to find out what happened, what went wrong and how to fix it, and I will not be satisfied until we get the answers that the American people deserve.

I do. I don't know exactly what happened here, but this is why I raised the question about the Department of Justice guidelines for the FBI.

I think that plan is going to be detrimental to the further security of our city.