Ron Johnson

We need to identify the root cause, and it is that flow that has been caused by a horribly broken legal immigration system.

Nobody wants to see any child exploited in any way, shape, or form.

I think we will in a bipartisan fashion do everything we can to move this nomination along as quickly as possible.

What was underscored in yesterday's hearing are the threats we face are real; they are pervasive; they are growing.

I think the lesson learned in Kaspersky, certainly one of the lessons is that within the intelligence and national security community, they knew full well that here is a cybersecurity business founded and operated by a former KGB officer…

I mean, that is what I thought 6 years ago, and the top two things on cybersecurity are always information sharing and a national preemption of data breach notification just made so much sense, but it is far more complex than that.

This threat is too significant to allow turf wars to get in the way of as efficient an operation as possible.

That is exactly what, for example, a country like Russia would be trying to do, is try and disrupt the election, delegitimize it, produce a lack of confidence, correct?

The reason I am taking the time and going through these details, I want to restore some confidence.

Senator Heitkamp was helpful on this as well, recognizing just this oversight and the number of committees of jurisdiction here.

These are existential just about, correct?

The country needs to do more.

One of my favorite sayings is, 'All change is not progress. All movement is not forward.'

What did Russia apparently spend on Facebook? Was it even $1 million?

It is madness, and from my standpoint I think it puts at risk our national security and our homeland security.

As Chairman of the European Subcommittee on Foreign Relations, I have seen Russian interference for years.

I do not know too many organizations that would recommend having a 535-member board of directors.

Were we unaware of the fact that the owner, the head of the company, was KGB-trained?

How did we let Kaspersky Labs grow the way we did, knowing what was the potential there?

I cannot imagine anybody walking by something dealing with accounting, but----

The main message we want you as Members of Congress, because it is so important in terms of the stability of our democracy to let the public know that we have this covered, and that the election in November will be legitimate.

Basically an act of war against Montenegro if it would have succeeded.

Security is everybody's business.

Let us say the vote totals exceed the number of people registered in a particular precinct, we should actually have some examples of that as well.

I do not want to be playing into Putin's hands in terms of creating this great doubt in our election system.