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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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