Political Quotes

“The Senator has identified my rationale and its actual underpinnings in a most accurate and precise way. You see, I am from the school of thought--along with, I know, the ranking member of the Committee on Armed Services, also a member of the Committee on Appropriations--that the defense of the Nation and the protection of its people doesn't rely only on the Department of Defense. There are also other muscular ways of protecting it, some of which are, first of all, response and surveillance and so on in existing, constitutionally allowed authorities and giving more money to the FBI to operate under the law as we have currently defined it. But you know what, we need to do prevention. Prevention really comes from the kind of intervention that would occur with the State Department--again, a tool of diplomacy. And what they have is a whole effort underway to deal with the recruitment and radicalization of Islamic jihadist terrorists on the Internet. Well, we have to support that. When they were going for more money for defense, we made that argument. But I am not going to relitigate old arguments. We have before us Orlando. We have before us those who want to curtail the terrorist threat. I want to curtail that terrorist threat. And some of the ways I want to do it are, No. 1, add more money for the FBI; No.…”