Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.


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The Saudis, and in some cases the CIA, had encouraged and funded their foreign jihads, and these men...
RICHARD ENGEL
On August 3, 2012, the fifteenth day of the government offensive, rebels in the city said they were ...
RICHARD ENGEL
...if the United States never intended to help, it shouldn’t have built up the expectation. The fa...
RICHARD ENGEL
It took from 1967 to 2003—over three decades—to build the big men. It took a decade—2003 to 20...
RICHARD ENGEL
When the Furies were released in the Middle East, an evil emerged beyond my worst imaginings.
...
RICHARD ENGEL
the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria—at least for the time being. The ...
RICHARD ENGEL
This was the first time I had come face-to-face with the other side of fundamentalism. The fundament...
RICHARD ENGEL
Ironically enough, the United States had almost nothing to do with the age-old conflict between Isla...
RICHARD ENGEL
The Crusades, waged intermittently from 1095 to 1291, but which continued in waves for centuries aft...
RICHARD ENGEL
Ottoman provinces were re-formed and cobbled together into states. The region was carved up with lit...
RICHARD ENGEL
These days, I no longer believe there ever are truly good guys or bad guys in war, at least in the M...
RICHARD ENGEL
When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for...
RICHARD ENGEL
Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the see...
RICHARD ENGEL
MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and...
RICHARD ENGEL
...in the assassination of three of its first four caliphs, the “successors” to Mohammed and rul...
RICHARD ENGEL
The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri...
RICHARD BRANSON
The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current d...
RICHARD CORLISS
I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaki...
RICHARD DONNER
There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing...
RICHARD DAWKINS
Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small ...
RICHARD THALHEIMER
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. ...
RICHARD BAXTER
Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 I apprehended it a Matter o...
RICHARD BAXTER
Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my car...
RICHARD BAXTER
Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your L...
RICHARD BAXTER
Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass....
RICHARD PETTY
One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every li...
RICHARD MARX
I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat a...
RICHARD COBDEN
Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for o...
RICHARD BACH
You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misna...
RICHARD ARMITAGE
Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like goin...
RICHARD SIMMONS
A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebt...
RICHARD CARMONA
But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and...
RICHARD SIMMONS
My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. I try to be the clown and court...
RICHARD SIMMONS
Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly,...
RICHARD DAWKINS
People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to ...
RICHARD BRANSON
I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around i...
RICHARD WAGNER
I want the market to work if it can, and most of the time it will, but not without some pain.
RICHARD SHELBY
Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It's also the right thing...
RICHARD BRANSON
If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because th...
RICHARD LEWIS
In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there...
RICHARD BRANSON