Michael G. Mullen

We shrink from our global security responsibilities at our peril.

Today, I ask your support for a leaner, more efficient Pentagon and continued sustainable, robust investments in our troops.

The national debt is the greatest threat to national security.

We must actually recapitalize our systems to restore our readiness and avoid becoming a hollow force.

The greatest threat to America's national security is our national debt.

Our national debt is our biggest national security threat.

This request for an 11-percent increase, more than 30 percent more than we were spending in 2008, is an affront to common sense.

Interest, the fastest-growing item in the budget, will crowd out our future hopes for education and for all other programs.

The President's budget adds $13 trillion to our gross national debt, doubling it by the end of the decade.

It's very important that we retain anybody who has talent and in fact is contributing, despite their sexual orientation.

I'm convinced that repeal of the law governing DADT is the right thing to do.

Unit cohesion will not suffer if our units are well-led.