Top 90 Michael McCaul Quotes

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

I am speaking as a Republican now, not a national security expert, but I believe that my party needs to come together.

Because there are little to no consequences for conducting cyberattacks, criminals and nation-states are becoming bolder in their threats and behavior. Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are increasingly hacking into U.S. companies and government networks for espionage purposes or financial gain.

Texas’ and America’s farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.

In Europe, you have very different situation than you do in the United States. In Europe, it’s very segregated. And you have the diasporas in Belgium that I saw. And they’re being radicalized because they’re not assimilated with the culture. I don’t think we have that same situation in the United States.

Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council.

Delay is not our friend. Delay is our enemy.

We’re trying to find needles in the haystack, and the needles are going dark, and it’s because of this phenomenon we can’t track their movements.

We didn’t take the words of Vladimir Lenin seriously until Communism spread across the globe. And unfortunately, the president didn’t take the words of groups like ISIS seriously until they established a sweeping self-proclaimed Islamic Caliphate.

We are in a struggle against the forces of radical Islam and terror, which must be defeated for our children and our grandchildren.

A Trump administration will take on this fight and send a clear message to the Islamist terrorists: you may have fired the first shot, but rest assured, America will fire the last.

Yemen is one of the most dangerous spots in the world.

ISIS is the greatest threat.

Terror threats to the U.S. homeland have reached unprecedented levels.

Anything I can do to help destroy ISIS, I will support that.

There’s a conspiracy going on online every day between these top U.K. individuals within ISIS leadership out of Syria.

In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our abilities to effectively defend America while ensuring citizens’ privacy and civil liberties are also protected.

We do a very good job at fixing broken bodies but not such a great job at healing broken minds with our returning veterans.

This is the new wave, the new generation of terrorism. It’s gone viral. It’s very dangerous, and it’s very hard to stop.

I think it’s important to note that after the airstrikes began in Iraq and Syria, ISIS began a very aggressive social media campaign calling for these types of attacks, these lone wolf attacks.

In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child.

We should be careful not to vilify encryption itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce.

The threat is real, and it comes from the Internet. This is a new generation of terrorist. This is not Bin Laden in caves with couriers anymore. This is what the new threat of terrorism looks like.

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

Social media campaigns and the savviness of ISIS and propaganda is what greatly concerns us Homeland Security officials.

I can reveal today that the U.S. government has information to indicate that individuals tied to terrorist groups in Syria have already attempted to gain access to our country through the U.S. refugee program.

We’re a compassionate nation.

Without – you know, good intelligence stops plots against the homeland. Without that intelligence, we cannot effectively stop it.

One of the chapters outlined in my book talks about the Iranian influence with Venezuela, these terror flights that go back and forth that we don’t manifests on, and then nuclear material smuggled across our unsecure southwest border from Mexico into the United States.

I would like to take a moment of silence to remember all those who lost their lives at the hands of ISIS, especially Americans James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and, most recently, Kayla Mueller.

I would argue it should be a policy to defeat ISIS where they are, where they exist and prevent them from coming into the United States.

To prevent a crippling attack on our nation’s critical networks, U.S. companies and the federal government must work together to combat those who wish to do us harm.

Violent extremism is going viral, but our response to it is moving at bureaucratic, sluggish speed.

What I’m concerned about are two things. I think one that John Miller talked about, and that’s the radicalization over the Internet that ISIS is very adept at doing. The other one is a foreign fighter threat.

You can have the best technology, but if you have an inside job of a worker that has access to the plane that’s corrupted or bribed or radicalized, they can get a bomb on that aircraft and blow it up.

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

200,000 ISIS tweets a day, 1,000 investigations in all 50 states. It’s really hard to stop all of it. But we have to get control over this Internet propaganda that is poisoning the minds of the United States.

This is an unprecedented pace of terror in modern times. And so, to say they’re on the run absolutely defies reality.

I take ISIS at its word. When they said, in their words, ‘We’ll use and exploit the refugee crisis to infiltrate the West,’ that concerns me.

The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

I think there is a failure in foreign policy. And you have to acknowledge that under Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton was the architect of that foreign policy. Whether it was malevolent or not, I don’t know.

I don’t think Mr. Snowden woke up one day and had the wherewithal to do this all by himself. I think he was helped by others.

I would advise Donald Trump to try to bring and unify this party together.

We’ve had to pull out of so many countries in Northern Africa.

We pulled out of Libya. Now look what’s happened: a safe haven, a vacuum, ISIS training militants to hit in Tunisia.

We cannot stop what we cannot see.

In the radical Islamist jihad world, you’re seeing more and more recruits going to ISIS rather than al-Qaida.

This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.

We want to do this methodically, smart, starting with border security then looking at immigration reform measures.

I think a lot of people don’t realize that our military that defends our freedoms abroad, when they come home to the military base, are not allowed to carry weapons.

In my home State of Texas, the Port of Houston operates as the United States’ top port for foreign tonnage and our second largest for total tonnage, so I know how important this bill is for the protection of the American people.

I don’t think we can afford to wait when it comes to cybersecurity. I think that every day we wait, if an attack occurs – and we’re getting hit every day – but if a greater attack occurs, it’s going to be on the head of Congress for not acting.

On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America’s farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support.

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

We talk a lot about operational control, and that’s having a better understanding of who’s coming in and who’s leaving, what the threat really is. We’re never really going to get that.

It’s one thing for someone to travel over to Syria and Iraq and come back. But, boy, it’s a lot easier if they activate someone who’s already here.

Cairo has flights into JFK, and they’re going to open another one at Dulles… As long as we have flights coming directly to the United States, I think it’s putting Americans at risk.