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 am speaking as a Republican now, not a national security expert, but I believe that my party needs to come together. – Mike McCaul
Social media campaigns and the savviness of ISIS and propaganda is what greatly concerns us Homeland Security officials. – Mike McCaul
Without – you know, good intelligence stops plots against the homeland. Without that intelligence, we cannot effectively stop it. – Mike McCaul
I’m very disturbed about the uptick in shootings and violence at our military installations across the nation. – Mike McCaul
This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all. – Mike McCaul
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. – Mike McCaul
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. – Mike McCaul
We do a very good job at fixing broken bodies but not such a great job at healing broken minds with our returning veterans. – Mike McCaul
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. – Mike McCaul
We want to do this methodically, smart, starting with border security then looking at immigration reform measures. – Mike McCaul
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. – Mike McCaul
We are ramping up security in the United States but also looking at visa applicants, visa waiver applicants – and looking at travel manifests on the airplanes trying to come into the United States. – Mike McCaul
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. – Mike McCaul
I know there’s a lot of discussion about building a 2000-mile wall. I think we need to complete the Secure Fencing Act, but we need greater technology and aviation aspects down on the Southwest border so we can see the threat from the sky. Until you can see it, you don’t know where it’s coming from and how to correctly stop it. – Mike McCaul
The pope is a very… passionate man. He likes to get out with the people, and with that comes a large security risk. – Mike McCaul
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. – Mike McCaul
I was a federal prosecutor when we exercised powers under the Patriot Act or under the FISA court. – Mike McCaul
The phenomena here is the foreign fighter threat, the revolving door from Europe to the region in Iraq and Syria and back through Turkey, back into Europe. And that’s what happened in the Paris attackers. – Mike McCaul
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. – Mike McCaul
We are monitoring very closely threats against the pope as he comes in to the United States. – Mike McCaul
We’re dealing with an enemy now, ISIS, that has a very sophisticated social media program. – Mike McCaul
We are in a struggle against the forces of radical Islam and terror, which must be defeated for our children and our grandchildren. – Mike McCaul
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