Mike McCaul

We are in the middle of a boondoggle of epic proportions. I would just say we need to look at starting over.

I look forward to working with you on our priorities that I know we share together.

I believe that the local, Federal, and private-sector collaboration that took place there is really a model for how our National security apparatus should work here at home.

The capture over the weekend of the drug lord, 'El Chapo' Guzman is a huge win for the United States and Mexico.

The problem is that the Sinai is linked into this global network.

Has the faith community been asked to become mediators in this crisis?

The war continues, and in that sense, we cannot retreat.

I agree that, you know, as al-Qaeda does spread--in a different form, Jane, you are absolutely right, they have evolved--but as it spreads, as Peter Bergen said, al-Qaeda has the largest presence now in the Arab world in history.

Just as we've layered security across ports and transportation systems, we need to do the same in the cyber world.

I have enjoyed a good relationship with the Ranking Member, as you said, in the spirit of bipartisanship on this committee.

H.R. 756, the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act, has passed the House.

The core al-Qaeda... has been substantially destroyed by the efforts of two administrations.

The terror threat is growing and some are not paying adequate attention to that.

I do not today see a credible or coherent American strategy for these countries--Syria, Iraq, and Libya--that most threaten to emerge as al-Qaeda's newest and most dangerous footholds.

To defeat this threat we need more than kinetic force.

I fear very much that 20 years from now, or less, someone else is going to be sitting here testifying before this committee saying much the same about pulling back from Syria, Libya, and Iraq today.

It is someone else's civil war' is a familiar refrain we are hearing often again. That is, again, a very false and dangerous narrative.

The credibility of American leadership is being questioned as it has not been for a very long time.

Today there is no central al-Qaeda nucleus.

Killing bin Laden was an important accomplishment, but it has not put al-Qaeda on its heels or secured the homeland.

President Obama repeatedly tells us that al-Qaeda is on its heels and on the run.

The administration has labeled the Fort Hood massacre in my home State 'workplace violence,' explained Benghazi away with a protest to a video as opposed to an al-Qaeda-driven attack.

Our goal is not to encourage China to be an enemy or to organize our military against China.

I hope that this new nominee, Jeh Johnson, because he is closer to the President, will have his ear and will be seen more with the President of the United States.

Well, it is disturbing. It is the third-largest department in the Federal Government, and yet the employees within the organization don't--I won't say believe in it, but they have a low morale.