I want to thank you particularly for the progress that you've made, both of you.

I would urge you to make this a priority.

I think one of the most important things that's going on now is the Army Futures Command.

The problem is right now they may have a benign intent or a lack of malicious intent. I would put it that way. But they are building up the capability which requires that we have to be alert.

The influence that we derive with them is by working with them to demonstrate how we do our targeting process.

Hopefully we have just passed a 2-year budget authorization. Hopefully again we will have the final numbers within the next two or three weeks, and then we will be able to move forward.

In the--since we've been talking for the last hour, four people in America have died from drug overdoses, and we're under attack.

This is simply a question of allocation of resources. This is the most serious public health problem this country faces.

What's it going to take? Is it going to take the destruction of the electric grid or the financial system in order for us to finally get to the point of taking this seriously?

I cannot believe we are having the same conversation today that I remember having with General Kelly 2 or 3 years ago.

We are not adequately prepared. We need a doctrine. We need it to be publicly available.

I am not attacking you. I am attacking the failure of our structure to adequately get at a problem when we have it right in front of us.

The conclusion from the meeting that Senator Cotton and I had was that it was not necessarily about bonuses.

It's still a hot war.

I believe he would do a victory dance.

I believe that UNCLOS [United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea] gives Russia the potential to, 'Own almost half of the Arctic Circle.'

I think countries, at least historically, that choose presidents for life, it doesn't end well for their own people.

My concern is that the whole strategy of deterrence breaks down if you are talking about terrorists having nuclear weapons or a nuclear device.