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When managers are not given the flexibility, and the opportunity, and the tools to manage with complete uncertainty as to what is ahead, that is disaster.

The bottom line if sequester would occur, it is not just a reduction in a significant amount of dollars that would occur, but it would be a convergence of taking the flexibility, the projection, the management, the future, away from those…

It is incumbent upon all of us to make decisions that will ensure our Nation is prepared to confront any threat.

I am fully committed to implementing the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

We must always take care of our people.

Is our policy worthy of our troops and their families and the sacrifices that we ask them to make?

This includes focusing on the mental health of our fighting force, because no one who volunteers to fight and die for this country should ever feel like that they have nowhere to turn.

Even as we deal with difficult budget decisions, I will never break America's commitment to our troops, our veterans, and our military families.

I have made it clear I share Leon Panetta's and our Service Chiefs' serious concerns about the impact sequestration would have on our Armed Forces.

I will continue this rebalancing even as we continue to work closely--closely--with our long-time allies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and our friends, and with allies, and partners, and friends in other regions of the…

America's continued leadership and strength at home and abroad will be critically important for our country and the world.

We will not hesitate to use the full force of the U.S. military in defense of our security.

America must engage in the world, not retreat from the world, but engage with the world.

I will always do my best for our Nation and for the men and women and their families.

If I am given the privilege of succeeding him, it will be a high honor.

No one is forced in there. That has to be maintained.

Sequester is not the route.

We reduce reliance on nuclear weapons as a vital contribution to preventing that proliferation.