We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

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

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

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.

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