"I absolutely agree with Mr. Clinton, that we should do everything in our power to set a private-sector leadership model in this."
"Our experience in financial services is that, with a combination of regulatory oversight and our own business motivations, we have done a better and better job of protecting our sector."
"One way to think about the State model, as people often describe it, is that it is a laboratory."
"Happy and relieved."
"the U.S. strategy should include offensive operations to counterterrorism, and terrorists should no longer find safe havens."
"Terrorism in America right now is our No. 1 security threat."
"Denying safe haven to terrorists is a paramount concern to our homeland security."
"I hope that doesn't happen, but I think it is a reminder that the United States needs to be concerned about not just monitoring the communications that are taking place in social networking forums, bu..."
"By all accounts Mexico is our largest supplier of drugs. While the United States is the largest supplier of weapons in Mexico."
"I would like to thank Chairman McCaul for conducting this hearing and giving us the opportunity to investigate the impact of Mexican drug cartel violence on the U.S. Homeland Security."
"I wish to also thank Victor Avila, who was wounded during the same incident, for his great service to our Nation."
"It should be a paramount responsibility and duty for us to bring to justice the terrible acts of people I would term criminals and thugs and murderers."