Brian Higgins

Hezbollah, the Party of God, is a Shia Muslim group committed to violent jihad.

It is time for us to realize we have run out of time.

We can only imagine what a nuclear weapon would do. We would see terrorism with impunity on a massive scale.

I am pleased to see that President Obama and leaders around the world have called on Bashar al-Assad to step down.

One of the most influential forces in the entire world, the Arab Spring of last year, amazingly was an 83-year-old retired professor, former Harvard professor by the name of Eugene Sharp.

I strongly disagree. The U.S.

When we get bipartisan support we can conquer anything.

We have spent $63 billion in reconstructing Iraq. The past performance doesn't inspire great confidence.

Since 2003, we have spent $8 billion training the Iraqi police, approximately $1 billion a year.

The fact of the matter is when the surge was undertaken, it was designed to tamp down violence to give some breathing room for the Iraqis, Sunni, Shia, the Kurds to do political reconciliation.

I commend my colleague, Jeff Duncan, for his bipartisan resolution to include as an area of focus the Western Hemisphere in our Nation's counterterrorism efforts.

In Iranian political and terror ethos, there is the near enemy, Israel. But there is also the far enemy, the United States of America.

I just think there's a tendency sometimes to dance around this stuff.

I think we should just call this what it is. It's a kill and capture mission.

The Lord's Resistance Army emerged from northern Uganda in the 1990s.

It seems when there is a physical presence in 15 major cities in the United States and 4 major cities in Canada that the potential of their nefarious activity is certainly there and present.

It is an organization that is committed to violent jihad. It is an organization that we identify as a major threat.

The U.S.-India relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world for the 21st century.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses on how to further increase our counterterrorism cooperation with an important and democratic friend, India.

The U.S. cannot allow its national security to be held hostage by nearly two decades of unfulfilled expectations in Pakistan.

What the American people should have expected in the aftermath of 9/11 is a bureaucratic response that is lean, muscular, transparent, and effective.

We created a bureaucracy that is not meeting its moral and operational objective.

This is my concern, we had a hearing in this committee a couple of months ago on Hezbollah.

Pretty clear to me of what their intent is, whether it is immediate or longer-term, and that is a profound concern.

Let me just--to me, that is very disturbing. You say that they have a presence in the United States and North America generally so as to have leverage, to be positioned that if they are attacked, they can attack.