Hugo Chavez is an able broker between Hezbollah and the narco-traffickers because I believe his regime is a narco-state.

Many people don't even realize that there are Hezbollah cells in the United States.

I think Representative Duncan's legislation, which passed unanimously in the House and enjoys bipartisan support in the Senate, would be an important part of getting all of the agencies to do a whole-of-Government assessment and produce a…

Because Hezbollah is here for--in the Western Hemisphere--for one reason: Because we are here. We are the target.

They are even talking about disavowing a treaty from 1947 that deals with the Monroe Doctrine where an attack on one is an attack against all.

If we can put those indictments forward, it will signal not only to the bad guys, but to the good guys that we are serious about this problem.

I walked away with a tremendous respect for what they are trying to do.

If you look at how groups evolve, particularly the FARC in Colombia, it went from being a very ideological organization until it got into the drug trade.

The problem is, is we are not moving quickly enough or treating it with the urgency I believe it deserves.

Everybody needs to know about it. I can tell you, meeting with the ambassador from Argentina was hardly a friendly experience as well. Very anti-American, was my sense.

But we need a strategy today. There are some--some action-oriented things that we can do right now.

It has to be bipartisan leadership to say: Look, we are not making accusations against the State Department.