"In Houston, federal support has been a blessing and sometimes a curse."
"Hurricane Harvey landed a sucker punch to Houston."
"It is hard to imagine a more inefficient and ineffective way to reduce poverty."
"It is great because it exposes two very different ways of thinking about our economy, opportunity, and the mutually shared goal of overcoming poverty."
"Instead of creating resentment against success, we focus on who actually needs our help, which is the people who are having trouble moving up the economic ladder."
"Any premature withdrawal from any place, to include Afghanistan, is a Saigon."
"ISIS still commands somewhere around 14,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria."
"September 11 changed the role of the United States, it changed the Middle East, it changed all of our lives, my life included."
"One thing I fear--and this is coming from rhetoric from the left and the right--what I fear is that we are no longer at war with them, but they are definitely at war with us."
"I don't believe the resource allocation argument that we need... to be repositioned against China."
"international terrorism, specifically radical Islamic terrorism, still poses a persistent threat to our Nation and to U.S. interests abroad."