Ray Mabus: “When America is called, the Navy and Marine Corps have always been there.”

The commitment to the rebalance is real. It is absolute.

If we don't get an American-made, more stably-based source of fuel, if we don't get some competition into the fuel, we're looking at fewer soldiers, fewer sailors, fewer platforms.

It follows then as certain as night succeeds day that without a decisive Naval force we can do nothing definitive and with it everything honorable and glorious.

The architects of our Constitution recognized the inherent value of the United States Navy and Marine Corps.