A biography for Michael McCaulhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm a big supporter of our United States military.”
“We think there should be a better countering-violent-extremism effort, that there should be a lead agency tasked to handle that.”
“Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee.”
“Our adversaries no long fear us, and our enemies are plotting against us.”
“We have a failed state in Syria.”
“Violent extremism is going viral, but our response to it is moving at bureaucratic, sluggish speed.”
“I think Syria is now the training ground for the world... These rebel forces are more of a threat than anything.”
“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 think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.”
“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.”
“Now we're dealing with a younger generation of terrorists that are very, very savvy with computer skills, very savvy over the Internet, and very savvy with social media of the likes that we have never seen before.”
“Obama is dedicated to a 'drip, drip' doctrine.”
“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.”
“The head of ISIS called for attacks during the season of Ramadan, which is what you have seen both in Orlando and now in Istanbul at the airport.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I would advise Donald Trump to try to bring and unify this party together.”
“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.”
“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?”
“We have about 200,000 ISIS tweets per day that hit the United States. The chatter is so loud and the volume is so high that it's a problem that's very hard to stop and disrupt in this country.”