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I cannot support a program that could potentially bring jihadists into the United States.

I spent over 10 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, serving overseas, serving in the Middle East. And let me tell you, if you're a terrorist and you want to come to the United States, the worst possible way to do it is as a refugee. You'll go through a year and a half to two years of vetting.

There are a lot of us that want to see limitations on refugee resettlement programs.

I just want to encourage you all... to rethink the resettlement of refugees in this country, especially in the numbers I'm hearing.

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.

I take ISIS at its word. When they said, in their words, 'We'll use and exploit the refugee crisis to infiltrate the West,' that concerns me.

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation.

My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.

I can reveal today that the U.S. government has information to indicate that individuals tied to terrorist groups in Syria have already attempted to gain access to our country through the U.S. refugee program.

What I've said from the beginning is that I am going to try to help all the vulnerable populations in Afghanistan - and to a certain extent, that's the majority of Afghanistan.