Deborah Lee James

We cannot get our job done without our Guard and Reserve.

If you are reduced to one single way, that is the equivalent of putting all your eggs in one basket.

The era in which the United States could project military power without challenge has ended.

If we return to sequestration in fiscal year 2018, this will exacerbate the readiness problem and set us even farther back.

The loss of assured access to space would be extremely damaging to national security.

It takes two to tango, and we can have all the urgency in the world, but we cannot give away the farm if the negotiation does not go well.

I worry that we will have airmen who will needlessly die and become injured.

We made assumptions that we wouldn't be using Army forces in Europe the way we used to, we made assumptions that we wouldn't go back into Iraq--and here we are back in Iraq, here we are worried about Russia again.

All discussions that I have been privy to, Mr. Visclosky, suggest to me that we are going to absolutely stand behind a nuclear triad.

There have been actions and then there have been investments, I will say, on the part of China and Russia which are very worrying to the United States.

I think virtually everybody agrees that we would like to, as the United States of America, not be so reliant on a Russian engine going forward into the future.