Quotes from Michael McCaul

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

I am extremely concerned that Syrian and ISIS recruiters can use the Internet at lightning speeds to recruit followers in the United States with thousands of followers in the United States and then activate them to do whatever they want to do.

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.

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.

I'm very disturbed about the uptick in shootings and violence at our military installations across the nation.

I was a federal prosecutor when we exercised powers under the Patriot Act or under the FISA court.

I want to give the American people assurances that we are protecting them.

Churchill didn't dance around the Nazis; he called it fascism.

What you're seeing is tension that we've seen for years between President Erdogan and his military, his military being more secular, President Erdogan being a little more in the Islamist side of the house.

What is our capability when someone posts a public social media posting that says that they're going to conduct attacks on the United States on behalf of the Islamic State. Why can't we pick up that information and then stop that act of terror?

It is time for President Obama to admit that - in this new age of peer-to-peer terror - we need a real strategy to combat radicalization at home and destroy extremist safe havens abroad.

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

We have entered a new phase in Islamist terror. Fifteen years after 9/11, our enemies have regained their momentum.

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.

There's no national strategy to deal with combating terrorism and foreign fighters.

That's what really concerns me about the modern-day terrorists that we face is this global expansion.

We know there are terrorists communicating with individuals in the United States. We just can't see what they're saying.

We need a military strategy to defeat terrorists on the ground.

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

I don't think Mr. Putin has our best interests at heart.

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.

I was in Cairo, Egypt, where Sinai - ISIS conducted the Russian airliner downing. We're concerned about safety and security at these last point-of-departure airports flying directly into the United States - in that case, JFK.

First and foremost, my job is to protect the American people.

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