Ron DeSantis

You said the biggest myth is that people coming could be terrorists.

We just saw, recently, two refugees linked to the Paris attack were arrested in an Austrian refugee camp.

The fact is, that those 66,000, when we got the individual offenses, you did have people convicted of homicide that were released.

We will be doing a hearing on the various visa programs, and I think that that will obviously be one that will be grist for the mill.

But that may not be sufficient.

We passed a bill this week. That does not--that bill may be a first step, but that does not solve all the problems, correct?

So you have confidence in it now, unlike Secretary Napolitano did not have confidence, you think now, standing here today, that the system is good and trustworthy?

Somebody in a place like Molenbeek, they can basically, even under this bill, they're still going to be able, if they have a passport, to come to the United States.

There has been no extradition for terrorists like Joanne Chesimard, who remains on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list.

I think we can see now that these were essentially a list of unilateral concessions that really represent an unprecedented surrender to an anti-American regime that continues to oppress its own people.

I think our rules of engagement have been problematic for quite some time predating this administration, but this is just totally farcical.

When you have very restrictive rules of engagement, you rely on having all this wonderful intelligence.

If you are engaged in a stabilization, counterinsurgency-type mission, and you have these ridiculously restrictive rules of engagement, you are going to lose.

I think we have had rules of engagement that have just been too restrictive from the very beginning.

I don't know what the President's strategy really is in Afghanistan.

I think the concern, though, is that you can do everything right, but given the lack of data, the lack of information we have on people who are being pulled out of a very, very difficult circumstance, essentially an Islamic civil war, that…

This idea that if you just make concessions to the Castro brothers, we are going to be able to turn the page has been proven wrong.

If you are harboring a terrorist, what is the evidence to then remove the regime from the list of terrorist-sponsoring country?

Has there been any commitment to extradite her to the United States so she can face justice?

I, as well as the chairman of this committee, stands forthrightly behind the people of Venezuela who are being oppressed by the Maduro government, a thuggish socialist dictatorship.

With policy toward Cuba, it has got to be focused, to me, on two things: standing with the Cuban people against the Castro regime and then what is in the best interest of the United States.

How is that advancing the rule of law if we are legitimizing a government simply taking somebody else's property outside the constraints of a legal and democratic system?

The embargo was instituted in response to all the property seizures that the regime had done.

When you are changing a policy, are you making it easier for the Cuban people to leverage a democratic transition?

We must have a policy that supports the aspirations of the Cuban people, not the needs of the Castro regime.