"I'm campaigning for the American people. I'm campaigning for my constituencies."
"This is a vital program that keeps our military stronger and also makes it more lethal."
"We should be listening to Midwest Democrats a lot more."
"We need to make sure – the Navy needs more ships. We need more – and the Merchant Mariners need more boats, more ships."
"That's classified information. Any basic person getting through military training knows that is classified information."
"Especially since there's such incompetence over at DOD, with Pete Hegseth being Secretary of Defense..."
"He's not qualified for the job, just by nature of the fact that he participated in this Signal chain."
"He is failing in his job and getting promoted to be ambassador. That's not what our nation needs at the United Nations."
"He should never have been nominated in the first place. He is the most untrained, inadequate, Secretary of Defense in our nation's history."
"We can, if Republicans will stop, you know, rolling over for this President. We can actually rescue this program."
"There's no way he can do that and do it well, especially since there's such incompetence over at DOD."
"The Democratic Party should be listening to the industrial Midwest more."
"He's already demonstrated he's incapable of doing the most basic thing, which is handling classified information."
"This man is completely unqualified to be Secretary of Defense, and needs to be fired because he's putting our nation's military readiness at stake."
"I don’t think anything went wrong. We just needed more votes."
"To try to emulate Dick Durbin’s energy."
"I believe these two reforms would have contributed significantly to the sustainability of Social Security."
"Mr. Martin makes a number of false statements that are easily debunked and dodges at least 80 questions outright."