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.

- Mike McCaul

You can have the best technology, but you if have a corrupted, radicalized, bribed official that has access to the plane to put the bomb in the cargo, as what happened in Sharm el-Sheikh, that's a real problem.

- Mike McCaul

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

- Mike McCaul

I'm a big supporter of our United States military.

- Mike McCaul

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

- Mike McCaul

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

- Mike McCaul

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

- Mike McCaul

I think, in Washington, getting things for the great people of Texas done is an important job.

- Mike McCaul

I think there's kind of a simplistic, kind of knee-jerk response that all you have to do is build a 2,000-mile wall, and problem solved.

- Mike McCaul

I think Syria is now the training ground for the world... These rebel forces are more of a threat than anything.

- Mike McCaul

I think Mrs. Clinton has a lot of weaknesses because she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy.

- Mike McCaul

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is the largest external operation force within al Qaeda.

- Mike McCaul

I predict you're going to see more and more of this shifting of al Qaeda fighters going over to ISIS because they are the game in town.

- Mike McCaul

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.

- Mike McCaul

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

- Mike McCaul

I cannot support a program that could potentially bring jihadists into the United States.

- Mike McCaul

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

- Mike McCaul

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

- Mike McCaul

Delay is not our friend. Delay is our enemy.

- Mike McCaul

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

- Mike McCaul