"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 terrorism."
"if we are not helping the moderates, nonextremists in Syria, if we are sitting back now as Iraq becomes a sanctuary for al-Qaeda..."
"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 agree with Congresswoman Harman. This is a whole-of-Government approach, and it is largely nonkinetic."
"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..."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"the enemy is violent Islamist extremism, a political ideology that seeks to justify totalitarian governance by perverting religion."
"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."
"In my opinion, we do have friends in the countries throughout the Middle East who essentially share our goals."