Lindsey Graham

I want to thank you for having the hearing because I think it is an important topic.

There is no stronger, clearer voice in the Senate than Sheldon Whitehouse in terms of the threats we face on the criminal front and the terrorist front that come from cyber misdeeds.

So you could steal my credit card information from overseas and basically be immune.

Are you the Eliot Ness of botnets?

Is that extortion under our law?

What nation states do we need to worry about in terms of being involved in this activity?

What do you think the deterrence is like right now, Mr. Demarest?

Our response, our sense of urgency, is woefully inadequate.

I think you are reinforcing bad behavior.

If one of these children are placed with a relative in the United States, do we check the legal status of that relative?

I think we should know the answer to that, because the likelihood of them showing up for a hearing is zero.

We need to make their life hell.

I couldn't disagree with you more, Madam Chairman.

We are nuts if we don't.

I want to pass immigration reform, but I want to stop this narrative that if we passed some law, we wouldn't have this problem.

Here is the problem with that: To go to a meeting in Baghdad, you are likely to get killed trying to get there. Who is going to sit down in Baghdad when everybody is getting killed based on sectarian differences? So my advice would be to…

Is it fair to say the Air Force in Iraq is grounded for all practical purposes? Mr. McCAIN. Not only grounded but a lot of the air assets, I am to understand, such as Apache helicopters, are in the hands of ISIS.

My point is, does my colleague agree he is right? It is not acceptable for our national security interests for ISIS to have a safe haven in Syria and Iraq that could run from Aleppo to Baghdad; that that is not a good thing for us? Mr…

Did my colleague hear President Obama say it is unacceptable for Iraq or Islamists to have safe havens in Iraq and Syria? Did my colleague hear him say that? Mr. McCAIN. No, I did not, but I did hear him say on December 14, 2011: ``We are…

I am sorry I was late. Actually, I had an exchange with General Dempsey about this very topic. Does the Senator from Arizona see any scenario where ISIS is militarily stopped and that the Iraqis can retake ground lost to ISIS without U.S…

The two new candidates for President would sign a Bilateral Security Agreement, they would accept troops.

Do you worry about if--if Afghanistan falls apart like Iraq, that one of the collateral damages could be destabilizing even further a nuclear-armed Pakistan?

By 2016, we're down to an Embassy force. There is no residual force.

I don't want to cede Iraq to Iran, but, at the same time, I don't want to blunder into a situation without thinking this thing through.

It is in our national security interest not to give these guys safe haven in Syria and Iraq, because the next 9/11 could very well come from that region.