Bennie Thompson actually said...

""It is such a good bargain . . . to spread fear amongst the enemy and keep him on his toes in exchange of a few months of work and a few thousand bucks.""

"I refused to believe it then, and I think now we have done a very good job at not only keeping security uppermost."

"It is therefore incumbent upon the United States to continue to enhance our capacity to identify those who have traveled to Iraq and Syria for terrorist purposes and support our partners' capacity to ..."

"This effort requires diplomacy and relationship building, neither of which have been a strong suit of the Trump administration thus far."