I think Democrats in Congress love Israel. Our relationship with Israel depends on a strong bipartisan relationship.

But as I often say, terrorists wont check our party registration before they blow us up.

As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.

The Clinton foundation has done a lot of good in the world.

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.