Our policy has been a--benign neglect is too strong a term, but it's been a kind of--go slow.

How important is it for us to get rid of Assad? And is it worth risking a war?

But, it's your position that this Geneva Convention assurance of being a protected person constitutes a solemn promise of the United States to look after these people indefinitely?

I appreciate your testimony, and I appreciate the urgency of this situation, and just want to be sure we understand all the implications when we move forward.

They're doing pretty well by stealing our intellectual property, he alleged.

But, it's urgent. That's the--and we just simply can't defend ourselves by saying, 'Well, it was complicated and we didn't get to it.'

I think we need to establish what we have--I suspect we do have some significant offensive capability, but part of a--making it a deterrent is that it has to be made--it has to be made public.

The idea that we can continue to simply defend and never have an offensive capability, I just think is ignoring this enormous threat, which we all agree.

I would hope that that would also--and that--the leadership and decisionmaking on that has to start with the White House, it has to start with the administration, for an all-of-government approach to dealing with this…

If there's a catastrophic attack tonight on the fiscal infrastructure or the financial infrastructure of this country, I do not want to go on cable news in the morning, if there is cable news in the morning, and say, 'The administration…

U.S. political dysfunction they ranked as a higher threat to national security than a nuclear-armed Iran.

You cannot defend, defend, defend, defend and never punch back.

We would never build a destroyer without guns.

I just think that this is a promising area with other nation-states.

We're the most wired country on Earth and that makes us the most vulnerable country on Earth.

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