Tom Carper

We have passed legislation that gives them the kind of opportunities to hire and retain people, cyber warriors that the National Security Agency (NSA) has.

You are really good. You are very responsive.

We are so lucky that you are willing to serve this country.

I am ready to rock and roll.

One of the initiatives that we talked about was a community partnership countering violent extremism (CVE), and it would be an agency within the Department of Homeland Security whose job it would be to work out--to reach out, particularly…

I always say to my Army friends, 'Well, we may wear different uniforms, but we are on the same team.'

That kind of reminds me of the Golden Rule. How do we want to treat other people? Well, the way that we would like to be treated.

These are children who have not been in school for years now. These are families in crisis.

If I am an ISIS-affiliated person and I am trying to get into this country and do mayhem, why would I take 2 years to get here?

Why do you guys want to take so many people in?

When I was a stranger in your land, did you take me in?

Vilifying refugees coming to our country or to Canada only serves as a distraction from the real challenges of defeating ISIS on the battlefield.

I think that we should support Canada, our ally, in doing the right thing in the most secure manner possible when it comes to Syrian refugees.

What I have said, anecdotally, is that a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) would have to be crazy or stupid to try to get here through our most closely vetted program and wait 2 years to go through the most extensive…

There was a lot of unease over the Syrian refugee population and the security risk that some believe that they might pose to us in this country.

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The connection with the community is one of the principal benefits.

Training is absolutely essential in the job, but where we are with the training is that we are learning every day.

I think that it is really important that we can somehow fund or prepare people to be part of the Joint Terrorism Task Force offices.

Just give us one good example of how the Federal Government can better support fire and emergency service providers.

We need to make sure that it provides the selfless men and women who keep us safe with the resources that they need to save lives.

I think that the defense of this Nation, the defense of our homeland, is a top priority of the Federal Government.

They can do this stuff. It is laid out in their Alliance for Prosperity.

$750 million to support--not to give money to these countries, but the taxpayer dollars from these countries.