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It is not the audit itself, it is the ability it gives you to make informed decisions.

Our strategy in Afghanistan is to continue to train, advise, assist, enable the indigenous military force of the Afghan Government.

The purpose of the whole thing is to deter further Russian territorial aggression in Europe.

One of my great regrets, and my wanting today is not going to change a thing, is that three separate elected Congresses have set aside 6 of the 8 years of the Budget Control Act, but we haven't dealt with the last 2.

The taxpayers are paying for GPS, because the government can't do anything right

I think Congress is part of the problem. It would be my anticipation in the fiscal year 2018 bill we will have prohibition on even considering how to approach the issue of BRAC.

The United States is under attack.

It's disappointing that the most capable country, Germany, is not living up to its weight in NATO.

Thanks to Vladimir Putin, we've gotten a wake-up call. The Russian bear came out of the hibernation.

We have made--drawn a very clear line: North Korea has to agree to not possess nuclear capability.

I do believe there is real concern that we take action, because we're seeing the results of our adversaries using cyber to degrade any number of things here in the United States.

It is evermore important that we remain vigilant to the range of threats worldwide as we seek to do all we can to provide security to the American people.

We have entered a period that can best be described as a race for technological superiority against our adversaries.

The risk of interstate conflict is higher than any time since the end of the Cold War.

We currently face the most complex, volatile, and challenging threat environment in modern times.

I mean, everything we've seen leads us down a path that really the preservation of the regime from any kind of external threat is central to that weapons program.

He has repeatedly stated that he would not give that up. He sees that as existential to his regime's survival and to his own survival.

I think our job is to inform the American people of this so that they take more--exercise better judgment as--in terms of what is real news and fake news.