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I would hate to low ball this and end up with a lack of capacity again in a crisis.

It seems to me that really underlines the importance of the MSP program.

I take it that we are now trying to play catch-up in terms of our capabilities to operate in a contested environment.

But if we are dealing with a peer competitor who has submarines and underwater drones and aircraft, that is a whole different calculation.

I hope that you will be very tough on your partners in these situations because my sense is from dozens of hearings here both in this committee and others that the private sector is not fully cognizant of the threat that they are under…

I consider your command one of the most important, if not the most important, in all of the commands that we have.

So you are committing to me a serious and unrelenting commitment to nonproliferation.

Why in the world in this situation are we seeing a decrease in the activities of the Department in nonproliferation instead of an increase?

What bothers me is that in your budget under NNSA, there is a significant increase for weapons activity.

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

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

I believe that China seeks regional hegemony.

I believe he would do a victory dance.

What you said at the beginning was very important, reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

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 share the Secretary of Defense's and Chairman's comments on this, that right now I think it is in our interest.

That certainly would not contribute to--if the Iranians had a nuclear weapon, we would have two rogue states with nuclear weapons on our hands instead of one.

Theoretically they would be able to do that.