"I hope thereby to create a record which will be of help to this Committee in its new leadership next year."
"I am just trying to ask to prioritize it."
"I am hopeful that it will produce common ground that at least 60 Senators will want to occupy."
"I thank Senator Collins for resisting the urge to grab the gavel."
"Surely we are safer than we were a decade ago, but we must be relentless in anticipating the changing tactics of terrorists."
"Thanks, Senator Johnson."
"Based on what has happened in the P5+1 talks with Iran and in their lack of any change in response to the sanctions, the second scenario is the more likely."
"This is the first of two hearings that this Committee will hold this week."
"Barring some shockingly surprising rapprochement with Iran and settlement of the dispute over their nuclear weapons capability program, no, I agree."
"This review is engendered first and most significantly in anticipation of the 10th anniversary of the Homeland Security Act."
"It is relevant. So maybe what we should do is form a Super PAC to begin to negative advertise against Islamist extremism."