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.

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 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.

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

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

I think sometimes you go through an experience, and you don't feel the impact, especially in a war experience, until way past it.

I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East.