Ray Mabus: “This budget was a strategy-driven budget, it was not a budget-driven strategy.”

I will protect shipbuilding until the last dog dies.

Because of the long lead time needed for shipbuilding, it is not the job of one administration. It is not the job of one Congress.

As President George Washington said, it follows then as night succeeds the day that without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

a great Navy is not a provocation of war, it is the surest guarantee of peace.