Ray Mabus: “It is an example, Senator, of when you miss a year building a ship, because we missed some years--we only built one…”

But if you've got someone issuing unlawful orders during that time, trying to hold on to power after an election that they lost, then foreign adversaries, they're going to seize on that.

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.

As the ice melts in the Arctic, our responsibilities clearly are going up.

I would never, ever, ever do anything to lower the combat readiness or the reliability of the United States military.