Mike Braun

We need to develop interlocking strategies that bring counternarcotics and counterterrorism together.

I think it is very important to declare Venezuela a state sponsor of terrorism.

I exhort my colleagues to recognize the threat and seek to work together, united in our desire to protect American security interests.

I would be a little bit concerned about that, Congressman.

The one thing that I would add to the doctor's comments, you know, I would go back to his comment of a symbiotic relationship that develops between very powerful drug trafficking cartels and terrorist organizations.

I would absolutely agree with it.

There is an unequivocal relationship

I really believe strongly that post-9/11, not shortly thereafter, we took our eye off the ball of the global drug trade.

I believe that they do have [designs on attacking us].

Who is going to be holding the keys to Iran's nuclear arms program when that albatross hatches in the not-too-distant future?

We are a threat. We are a threat.

Where you see one roach, there are thousands.

In places like the Tri-Border area of Latin America, in places like West Africa, and I particularly believe in some permissive environments within Mexico, groups like very powerful drug trafficking groups and terrorist organizations are…

I think it's far worse than that. That's a very conservative estimate, as well it should be, but suffice it to say that it is a growing phenomenon.

What happens on the African Continent with respect to security threats does not stay on the African Continent.