Mike McCaul

Although Secretary Napolitano has said she wants to build a more cohesive, effective, and efficient 'One DHS,' without integration and consolidation of management functions, a 'One DHS' will not happen.

I certainly agree with you.

I believe that the size and management of that operation, lots of serious mistakes made, and should never be repeated.

I think it is important to note that today marks the 1-year anniversary of the brutal killing of Agent Jaime Zapata and shooting of Agent Avila, and I think by the Los Zetas.

It seems to me that there are always lessons learned from other events in the past in the Federal Government.

I think that was an important point that I was not aware of. I think perhaps we can change that as well.

Like the rest of my colleagues, I recognize the need to reform our export control system.

Our system is designed for the Cold War, and we all recognize it needs to be changed.

I personally wish we could appropriate more dollars, but we live within a tough budgetary time.

If you release the data as soon as possible, the scientific process can take over.

You can be a type A personality and you are not going to get a heart attack.

Unless we fix these types of problems we will continue to see failures in DHS programs such as the Secure Border Initiative virtual fence, where in the end taxpayers received little if any return on a $1 billion dollar investment.

I want to thank the witnesses for attending this portion of the hearing, and, Dr. Caudle, for you flying all the way out from my home State of Texas; I really appreciate your testimony here today.

Do you agree that that would make DHS a more efficient agency?

In a world of asymmetrical threats to U.S. security, the United States cannot rely on outmoded tactics rooted in the past to defend the homeland today.

I think, Mr. Braun, as you stated, counterterrorism and counternarcotics have now--the two have come together.

That is unacceptable, that a wounded and desperate Iran would be as brazen to use the Western Hemisphere as a staging ground for attacks against American citizens on U.S. soil.

One proposal that I have introduced is a bill to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist--foreign terrorist organization.

there is going to be hell to pay, you know, at some date in the not--probably in the not-too-distant future.

Iran has repeatedly demonstrated that its goals are to intimidate America in its own hemisphere.

Ahmadinejad and I are going into the basement now to set our sights on Washington and launch cannons and missiles.

I think designating the Revolutionary Guard as a foreign terrorist organization, which we were surprised they hadn't been, would be a helpful tool I think from a law enforcement standpoint.

the sad history of this nation began with the abrupt departure of the Belgians, the most corrupt, brutal, and unenlightened colonialists in all of Africa.

For years we have watched as Iran has stepped up its involvement in the Western Hemisphere.

without strategy America's border security blunders facilitate and empower Mexican drug cartels.