"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 think it is exceedingly damaging to engage in this fiction that the attack at Fort Hood was workplace violence."
"It is absurd to say that there isn't a connection between these things."
"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 the..."
"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"
"you can't fight an enemy you don't acknowledge"
"the tyranny of political correctness has been extended so far that Major Hasan's actions have been labeled as 'workplace violence.'"
"we must purge ourselves of the practice of political correctness when it interferes with our rational and intellectually honest analysis"