Iran, Hezbollah and the Quds Force... pose a real threat to our country.

It is important to realize that where you find one--you find the other.

I think it would be a great strategy, and it is--you know, it is not Congress' job, but somebody needs to herd the cats.

I would absolutely agree with it.

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

We need to get better at using sanctions like 311 to drive very nefarious organizations and bad guys into the areas where we can hit them the most, and we are not doing that.

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

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

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.

We need a defense-in-depth.

We need to refocus our efforts on the traditional forms of illicit markets that are driven by organized crime.

there is an unequivocal relationship

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

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

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

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

We are a threat. We are a threat.

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.

Where you see one roach, there are thousands.

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