She's agreed to go into rehab.

Let me ask you, what about, for example, this relationship with Russia, and Russia now having thrown up a blockade with regard to the opportunities for joint cooperation on such a thing as national missile defense.

Thank you.

I wish we were still talking about Cecil, but we can't be talking about that any more.

Overcentralization of the carrier port structure is not a good strategic move. The Navy should have two carrier-capable homeports on each coast.

What we want is the truth and we will look forward to receiving that from you.

Twenty percent unreliable, if those statements by this senior officer are correct. Then report back to us, why is it that they are unreliable?

I have checked and I have it in writing that what I am about to state is unclassified.

Senator Graham, no one would say that General Shinseki was right because Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was not going to let them say that.

We were not told the truth about weapons of mass destruction, nor about troop strengths, nor about the cost of the war, nor about the sectarian violence.

Let me tell you about a conversation I had with our Ambassador Khalilzad and General Casey. They both said--this was back before Christmas--that they would not support a surge unless there is a specific plan for success, and the ambassador…

If confirmed, will you pledge to work closely with this committee to ensure rigorous oversight of the Department's missile defense program?

My judgment is that dispersion is still the situation. A nuclear carrier should be in Florida to replace the John F. Kennedy to get some dispersion.

I want to ask you about--as we're trying to give the warfighter and the commander greater flexibility of getting up smaller satellites in operationally responsive space.

The Atlantic fleet should continue to be dispersed in two home ports.

Can you describe for the committee what kind of investments you think that are necessary at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg in order to sustain and modernize these launch facilities so you could have operationally responsive space?

Do you have in your mind that you're going, as CNO, to implement a plan for carrying out this principle of strategic dispersal?

It is my belief that it would be a serious strategic mistake to have all of those key assets of our Navy tied up in one port.