Mike McCaul

We will never forget.

This is the greatest threat of our time, and I urge each of you here today to explain to this committee and to the American people how you are planning to elevate our defenses to keep Americans safe.

The President is sticking to a strategy that is better suited for losing a war than winning one.

We must define the threat in order to defeat it, just as we did with communism and fascism.

We shouldn't be naive about that process. It will be slow, it will be complicated, there will be difficulties along the way.

It's clear the President's policy and our approach to Cuba is broadly supported on the island itself.

I think the argument is, in fact, our engagement rather than allowing the Cuban Government to tighten its grip, has actually helped loosen the grip, and increased flexibility, access to information, and openness.

I think we ought to suspend all non-humanitarian and non-education assistance to Pakistan.

We need to do additional drone attacks against targets that are Haqqani and Taliban related.

I believe that the administration's effort to isolate Pakistan, to pressure it more, is welcome, but I think it is insufficient.

I think unless we effect fundamentally that calculus, that they confront the choice, it is unlikely that they would adjust the policy that we require.

Yemen is a failed state, in my judgement, and it is in a really bad state of affairs.

I saw Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, evil incarnate.

There are concerns about whether or not air marshals are even going to be allowed on the flights.

But we are going to try our hardest to make sure at least its American people are safe when they fly to and from those airports.

I am very concerned about the lack of transparency coming from TSA on this issue.

Information from independent sources has consistently been a destabilizing influence on totalitarian regimes.

Beyond economic sanctions, short of the use of military force, one of the most effective things we can do is provide the people of North Korea with information.

The guiding principle of the United States' policies in North Korea should be to exert every effort to pressure the regime in order to incentivize change.

I introduced legislation in this Congress to approve the 15-year extension of America's compact with Palau.

This is no way for our Nation to maintain influence on what is becoming, every day, a more strategically important and contested area of the world.

Unfortunately, however, 6 years later, that agreement to extend the compact has not been approved by Congress.

It is time to call North Korea what they are: A state sponsor of terrorism.

As we speak, a war is being waged against us in cyber space.

The events in Orlando are a reminder that our Nation is being targeted by those who want to undermine our freedom and diminish our prosperity.