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I cannot certify, nor can the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, or any of our chiefs, to have our young men and women go to war if they are unprepared, if they are not ready.

I am absolutely committed, as my predecessors have been--you noted Secretary Panetta's involvement--to make this work and to have these two agencies cooperate and work together.

It is clear to the leadership in Afghanistan and the people that we are not there to occupy.

I think it is pretty clear, as we are consolidating our bases and handing over responsibilities.

I have not made a recommendation to the President that we should militarily intervene.

We will be coming up to Congress with a significant package of reprogramming requests.

The world is a different kind of world today, as everyone on this committee knows. You all travel. You go everywhere. We have new threats.

The missile deployments the United States is making in phases one through three of the European Phased Adaptive Approach, including sites in Poland and Romania, will be able to provide coverage of all European NATO territory as planned by…

Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator from Nebraska was sworn in as secretary of defense.

Exhilarating. Wonderful. Thank you for your service.

I don't have any further questions, but thank you gentlemen for your service.

I also have a problem with the word entitlement for another reason, because people who have set aside savings for their entire life as a guarantee for retirement income security, as well as healthcare security, should not be stigmatized by…

A couple of quick points. One is, you mentioned that the effect of increased taxes and these possible spending reductions would have about a negative 1.5 effect...

So you want to keep it as a library, that is what you are saying?

We cannot sustain our current trajectory--yet at the same time to deliver smart and effective government services.

Specifics, even if they have to be in a bit of a broad range, I understand that, but tens of billions of dollars is too broad.

I think that this demands cooperation between the White House and the Congress to figure out how the necessary task of reducing spending takes place in a more targeted manner.

I agree with the commentary that, going to the issue of the sequester, it is a clumsy way to do this across the board.