If you shoot the people who do it and blow up their boats, they won't be back.
I would ask that be submitted and included in the record as well.
I hope that once you assume your position here, you will resist the notion to get on an airplane and go say 'hi' around ...
We have a stewardship to those people, that's quite a bit different than the way we address the career force.
We're entering a period where DOD, and I think the people at this table understand it--other people in DOD have to reali...
Stability is one issue. But being mandatorily committed to coming to the defense of a country...is very troublesome.
If you cannot clearly articulate when the commitment will be ended, then we tend to move sort of in an ad hoc way.
You don't see--and I'm not trying to put words in your mouth--from what I'm hearing, you would not analogize the situati...
I would hope that in this process, we can end up with a clearly articulated end-point.
NATO expansion originally started out as being very much about creating a Europe that's whole and free.
I would hope that we could proceed forward in a very careful way, in terms of making any more mandatory obligations as t...
I think the key thing is to implement the SOFA, and to reduce our role and our numbers there.
You have written in the past, that you believe that there should be a residual force in Iraq of approximately 60,000 Ame...
I think your selection, General Shinseki, is an inspired act of leadership by the incoming President.
I hope you will do everything you can to reach out to the veterans' groups.
I really believe the greatest challenge for the VA is simple leadership.
I had a great deal of heartburn over the way that those agreements were signed here.
the goal of this administration is going to be more partners and fewer adversaries and to do so in a realistic way that ...