Michael G. Mullen: “Indeed, our national interests are tied to that region perhaps more than to any other right now.”

A Nation with our current levels of unsustainable debt cannot hope to sustain for very long its superiority from a military perspective or its influence in world affairs.

Our debt is our greatest national security threat because it jeopardizes our ability to fund defense.

I'm more afraid of the red ink than the red menace.

I think actually both sides, going back to the beginning of SALT, do not want to destroy the world and that continues.