It's unacceptable for our involvement to end with Qadhafi still in power.

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

I share the sentiment that has been expressed across the panel, which is that we have to be very careful as we cut budgets that we do not take big risks with our security because in the end that really is the first responsibility of our…

This is an approval rate that exceeds 80 percent.

One of the other ways in which the law attempted to give the DNI authority...

I think the system is working as we would want it to.

We have reintroduced our See Something, Say Something bill to expand those protections to reports of such behavior in all sectors.

It is in a spirit of gratitude and confidence that both GAO and this Committee will continue to push you to get as close to 100 percent secure as we possibly can.

as you have so fervently supported on a number of occasions.

I would guess that most Americans would share the opinion I have, which is that travel to the United States is a privilege not a right and that any association with terrorism should be enough to keep a foreign national from getting a visa…

We assume that most of the illegal immigrants are coming in illegally.

I would urge the Congress to play its role as a co-equal branch of government--Congress writes the laws.

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.

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

But that leaves 25,625 who have been approved for resettlement but have not yet been resettled in this country.

we may be able to reduce the flow of illegal immigrants by altering immigration law.

I think that is a very important point for management, and particularly since we are in the middle of it right now as we go through the process of trying to get back toward some kind of fiscal balance in our Federal Government and we are…

9/11/01 could have been prevented and should have been prevented and that if it was tried today, it would be prevented.

the common perception is that the undocumented immigrants are all coming in illegally, mostly, in the common view, across the Southwest Border.

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

I appreciate her holding the gavel and bringing the hearing to order.

The success against Osama bin Laden should not cause us to rest on our laurels.

And you think that is an achievable goal?

We must ask, therefore, the fundamental question: Are changes in the law required in order to realize the potential of the DNI?

As I look at the overall statistics, DHS interviewed more than 101,000 Iraqi refugee applicants and approved more than 84,000 for resettlement in this country.