Joe Lieberman

What is happening now I think is a profound repudiation of the ideology of Islamist extremism.

What happened in Tunisia and Egypt is really a very loud outcry by--they are not just moderate.

Ultimately, the people in Tunisia and Egypt, and hopefully in Libya soon, will determine their own destiny.

They view Islamist extremism as regressive.

I think we will address a letter right away and see if we can get you a response.

But there ought to be somebody in charge.

Senator McCain was, as you two know, the original sponsor of the legislation that created the 9/11 Commission.

I appreciate that answer. I have continued to use the term that you used because 'Islamist' makes the point that a political ideology has exploited a religion.

We are not fighting terrorism, some generic evil. We are fighting an ideology, if you will, a corruption of a theology.

You did a great service by identifying the enemy here and saying, yes, it was al-Qaeda.

It has to be somebody at the top--nothing negative about Mr. Brennan--who is accountable to Congress and the public.

We can never say never, but certainly our defenses against a sophisticated 9/11-type attack are way up and, therefore, the prospects of that happening are down, thank God.

Congress has resisted reorganizing its own institutions, and streamlining congressional oversight of the intelligence community and the Department of Homeland Security would go far toward advancing unity of effort in the intelligence…

The threat from al-Qaeda, related terrorist groups, and individual adherents to violent Islamist extremism persists to this day.

Islamist extremism is as good a term as we have been able to find for actually identifying what the problem is and who the people are.

Our strategy must match our means to two ends: Dismantling the al-Qaeda network and prevailing in the longer term over the ideology that gives rise to Islamist terrorism.

The NYPD sets the standard here.

I think because of his background in the military and credibility at the Pentagon, has actually negotiated an agreement with Secretary Robert Gates.

The terrorist threat will be with us far into the future, demanding that we be ever vigilant.

We have to have leadership, and I think some of that leadership is from people that are accountable to the President

As I understand it, we have more than 100 existing monitors along the West Coast----

As I look back to Hurricane Katrina, to make a long and complicated story too short, first off, we had an extraordinary natural disaster event.

Under Northern Command, which is a command of our military which has responsibility now for Homeland Security, we have these two units, 4,500 people in each one, one active duty, one reserve, that are specially trained to respond to events…

We live in a world with a lot of risks.

So I presume that, just trying to be helpful, that people, including on the West Coast, should not yet be taking potassium iodine pills as a preventive of any kind because right now there is no risk, and there is some slight risk of side…