Pete Hegseth

I honored the Iowa soldiers killed in Kuwait, while saying the U.S.-Iran conflict was necessary to keep Americans safe.

We hope it doesn't have to go in that direction.

Training, lethality, accountability, discipline, readiness — the bedrock of what it means to be an American warrior — is the only focus of our department.

At the Department of War, we do training, not tr***ies.

President Trump needs the type of leaders who understand why a $1.5 trillion dollar budget, a one-time generational investment, is what is necessary to ensure that my kids and your kids, that your grandkids and my grandkids, live in a free…

There is a cost to doing very difficult things, to going out and defending your country, and ensuring radical Islamist crazies don’t get a nuclear weapon.

It is a day and night difference. Training, lethality, accountability, discipline, readiness — the bedrock of what it means to be an American warrior — is the only focus of our department. Colorblind, gender-neutral, merit-based. That’s it.

What they do in those high seas in those austere conditions with less port calls — it's incredible.

Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors than anybody.

We make sure that every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment.

This department pays tribute to Lindsey Graham in the naming of this base, but there could be no greater tribute than for Congress to give and invest in our warriors for the full $1.5 trillion.

We are committed in working with Congress to get $1.5 trillion. But this is not the same way we’ve funded our department in the past.