Ray Mabus: “The effects of sequestration, should it continue past 2016, would be serious in the extreme to both the Navy and the…”

You will not lose this war. That is deep. There is a lot of layers. And we are all blessed.

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.

I will protect shipbuilding until the last dog dies.

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.