The forces that attacked our country on September 11--they had safe haven in Afghanistan.

The threat we face is very real.

My statement to the committee is that on paper there's a disaster in the making, to our Homeland and to losing all the gains we've fought for inside of Afghanistan, by drawing down too quick and not being able to help the Afghans in a…

Let us fast forward to January 2017. How many do we expect to have given the current plan?

The President chose wisely to make you the next Commandant of the Marine Corps and I think you will get an overwhelming vote in a bipartisan fashion because you've deserved it and you've earned it.

If they could attack any place in the world, the top priority would probably be here at home?

Do you believe if we had had the NSA capabilities in effect in September 2001 that we have today there's a high likelihood that we would have intercepted the attack on September 11?

How many counterterrorism forces, special forces do we have in Afghanistan today?

Do you agree with me that the only way to deter them is to prevent them from attacking us, because killing them is not a deterrent?

Do you see by the end of 2016 any reasonable possibility that the al Qaeda types...will be contained?

How did we miss the fact that a major in the United States Army was communicating with him?

Well, do you agree with me that you do not need a court order to surveil the enemy in a time of war?

And at the end of the day--my time is up--isn't that what we are trying to do?

We are trying to find a way to fight a war within our values.

Let us pick up on what the Chairman said. You wrote an op-ed piece opining that you think that this technology, if it had been in place before 9/11, could have helped prevent the attack.

If I may just conclude. I have a quote from Speaker Boehner, who said he would support the Obama administration if it decides to leave troops in Iraq beyond 2011. I remember Senator Obama and Senator Clinton not being particularly helpful…

The bottom line is we have to change the momentum. We are not there. But Senator Menendez, to his great credit, is willing to release his hold on the sale of Apache helicopters to allow the Iraqi military an advantage over Al Qaeda. I…

As to the future of how to move forward, Prime Minister Maliki with all thought did go to Basra and take on the Shia militia. The political gains we made in Iraq are being lost by lack of security. If we would have had a residual force…

I would be glad to respond to the Senator's comments. No. 1, I understand the average American thinks of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as having been long and difficult wars costing a lot of money and a lot of American lives. But the…

I am giving you an opportunity here to tell us that maybe the worst is yet to come and prepare Members of Congress who are sympathetic with a bill you may send us.

What I am trying to lay out is that the worst is yet to come.

I think there is bipartisan support for trying to do a better job in terms of assimilating non-terrorist refugees in the United States.

I think the worst-case scenario would be if they had no place to go.

But it really is inadequate over time, don't you think?

I do not see a comprehensive immigration bill passing anytime soon, so when it comes to changes in our laws...