We need to have that position filled. We need to have all the players on the field if, in fact, we want to prevail in this.

We want to have a deterrent effect against rogue nations.

So this is one hearing in a series of efforts by the Congress to look ourselves in the mirror and accept some responsibility for this and try to do better.

They see on television things that they cannot believe exist in 2015. This is not 1015; this is 2015.

Thousands of years of art being smashed with a sledgehammer. Women being raped and sold into captivity.

America needs to understand, in my view, that this is a generational struggle, that we will have troops forward deployed for the rest of my life and beyond, to keep this problem from getting back here.

Because we are running out of time, could you provide me and the subcommittee sort of a wish list, realizing you can't have everything you want, but prioritize what you need that you don't have, so that we could make you more effective?

As these atrocities increase, as religious persecution runs rampant, as genocide is on display, we and most of the free world are beginning to reduce our military capabilities to historic lows.

crucifixions, beheadings in 2015 should not be the way in which the civilized world operates.

The only thing unknown is how many people must die between now and then.

I'm looking for an overwhelming, decisive advantage over the enemy, and that will be lost if we don't modernize our forces.

As I speak, people are being crucified. People are being burned alive. They are being beheaded.

We should be ashamed at such developments, especially when one considers the important U.S. role in elevating that right's international legal recognition since 1948.

I think it plays a key role that we now have, again, another Ambassador. Rabbi Saperstein has been a friend of mine for a long time.

If they don't, there needs to be a penalty for that, and that penalty needs to be that they don't get U.S. dollars if they are knowingly, willfully, and consciously violating religious liberty and religious rights.

I have never seen more organizations with the capability, manpower, weapons, and will, radical Islamic organizations ready to attack us here at home, than I have any time before 9/11.

I think just the fact that you are holding this hearing is sending a message that this issue is one of great importance.

It has to be crushed, eliminated.

if the Army continues to have to implement sequestration numbers, the Army is going to be much smaller

If we are smart, once we clear ISIL out of Iraq, if we can ever do that and not give the place to Iran, would you recommend a residual force to maintain the gains we've----

ISIL is just not a regional problem. It's a threat to the homeland?

A hearing without action is just a meeting. I didn't convene a meeting. I want a result and action.

if we want to insist upon sequestration, then we'd better be willing to go back home and tell people you can't get there from here

I think we cannot underestimate the influence of a strong, trained, well-equipped military.

we are facing today a religious genocide in the Middle East by ISIS and other groups destroying Christian populations that have existed for 2,000 years.