"I am deeply impacted by our experience on Iraq as someone who grew up as an Iraq specialist and who didn't agree with the decision to go to zero in Iraq."
"we have learned in the past 20 years that our best attempts in these wars is through coalitions, through alliances."
"Do you feel confident that the American people will stay safe and not be attacked again emanating out of Afghanistan?"
"I write to ask that you designate additional overseas violent WSE groups in the attached list that meet the necessary criteria as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)."
"Such designations will help apply more stress to curtail these violent organizations' and their leaders' ability to operate their groups."
"I was struck by the threat these white supremacist groups pose, the amount of contact they have with extremists in the U.S."
"we simply cannot allow violence to be normalized as part of our politics."
"There is nothing political about protecting Americans from violence in our communities."
"the single greatest threat to our country right now is domestic terrorism."
"domestic terrorism investigations have grown from around 1,000 in September, to about 1,400 at the end of 2020, to around 2,000 after the attack on the U.S. Capitol this past January."
"In my own district last year, Federal and State authorities managed to disrupt a plot by at least 14 men to kidnap our Governor, Gretchen Whitmer."
"These plotters weren't affiliated with al-Qaeda or ISIS; they didn't hail from a war-torn region halfway around the world--they were Americans."