Joe Lieberman

The Government needs the help of the American people. If people see something suspicious, they must say something to our Government.

We have to purge ourselves of the practice of political correctness when it goes so far that it interferes with our rational and intellectually honest analysis...

Failure to recognize these common threads leads to a great deal of wasted effort.

Violent jihadism is an ideological serial killer.

These large groups are, as we speak today, planning somewhere in the world to come here and bomb us in some kind of a spectacular way...

I can tell you that I am convinced now, after responding to this incident that if we had not trained through the UASI process--they funded a joint terrorism training preparation, and something called Urban Shield.

I don't believe it has been effective as seen by Boston.

I have learned enough from this case... to feel very strongly that this committee, that the administration, the Department of Justice have to review the existing Attorney General guidelines for investigations by the FBI.

The Muslim-American community is probably one of our greatest allies in this effort to stop the ideology.

In this case what I am agitated by for all the reasons we have talked about is why nobody was particularly looking for the name Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

President Putin made a statement along, I believe, with President Obama, maybe it was with Secretary Kerry when he was there, that we have a common enemy here.

I urge you to bring in the folks from the FBI and the CIA to talk about this.

It should be unifying, really, because we are all in this together.

The leaders and members of the world's Muslim communities... have the greatest capacity to do the most important work of counter-radicalization.

The enemy we face is violent Islamist extremism, not just al-Qaeda.

I hope and believe that this Congress and this administration will not let that happen this time.

You have got to know your enemy and call it what it is, particularly now.

Thanks, Mr. Chairman.

General Campbell and General Walker, how would such a change enhance the Army's warfighting capabilities?

General Campbell and General Walker, when will the Army make a decision and announcement?

General Campbell and General Walker, where is the Army in its analysis and decision process with respect to adding a third maneuver battalion to the Infantry and Armor brigades?

Given the capability that the current brigade structure has demonstrated in combat and the potential increase in costs to implement a major reorganization, what would be the basis for justifying the additional expense?

Given that requirements assessment and development processes now include cost estimates, what are the Army's estimates of the potential incremental increase in costs to implement such a decision?

General Campbell and General Walker, how will Army plans and execution of the reductions account for different equipment requirements?

We strongly urge that Connecticut be made eligible for this funding because it is so important.