Mike McCaul

I am convinced that Iran will continue on this path until the sanctions bite so bad that the regime must relent or face upheaval.

From day one the Obama administration has reached out to the Iranian regime. Unfortunately, that hand has been met with more centrifuges, more missiles, and more stonewalling.

For the FBI to allege that this committee does not have jurisdiction over investigating a terrorist attack in the homeland in the United States is a disservice to the American people.

It is unfortunate that the FBI has chosen to obstruct this committee's oversight, jurisdiction of events leading up to a terrorist attack on our country.

Part of the information sharing better be with the Member of Congress as well.

It was ridiculous to call that workplace violence.

I hope you will go back and speak with the FBI and the Attorney General's office, take another look at those Attorney General guidelines.

The failure to share information is absolutely indefensible.

The idea that the Feds have this information, and it is not shared with the State and locals defies, you know, why we created the Department of Homeland Security in the first place, and it is very troubling to me.

I believe that though it would not have been easy, it was possible to have prevented the terrorist attacks in Boston.

The American people demand and deserve accountability.

Terrorists can keep coming at us and they only have to succeed once. We have to stop them every time.

The homeland security system we must acknowledge that we built after 9/11 to protect the American people from terrorist attacks failed to stop the Tsarnaev brothers.

You cannot defeat an enemy you refuse to acknowledge.

We can and we must do better.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. We look forward to continuing to work with you to ensure that America's chemical facilities are adequately protected against terrorist attack.

Every American values their privacy and civil liberties as well as their security in cyberspace.

In the case of biological, which is my particular expertise, it is not at all difficult to get--for anybody with a will and a little understanding of how you can get these materials.

I commend the Obama administration for its firm line against North Korea.

I believe that is the best way to protect the privacy of the American people.

I have to depart. I have an amendment on the floor to the CISPA bill, the intel cybersecurity bill, that provides a civilian interface to the private sector for threat information.

I think it is important that we have metrics.

I think 40 percent of the illegals here are here by overstays on visas.

We talked to General Allen about the technologies they have. Bringing that technology back to the Southwest Border.

If we are going to talk about Comprehensive Immigration Reform, we have to, No. 1, get operational control of the border.