America is still today the world's foremost leader, partner, and underwriter of stability and security in every region of the world.
I'm grateful that our country's leaders were able to come together last fall to avert that dismal future
the biggest budget priority for us strategically is Congress averting the return of sequestration
Today's security environment is dramatically different from the last 25 years, requiring new ways of investing and operating.
I have not heard that in our discussions. I'll take that back and add it.
Obviously, I'm the Secretary of Defense, so I care very deeply about the defense budget.
We are also quadrupling the European Reassurance Initiative, which allows us to do more with our NATO partners there.
I don't believe that the nuclear agreement with Iran constitutes a grand bargain of any kind or will lead to your word 'detente' of any kind...
We do need Homeland Security, we need the Intelligence, we need the State Department.
Not on my watch, and I'll bet you not on my successor's watch either, is anybody going to transfer these people.
Yes. Yes. And I think you characterized it quite well.
We're challenging our NATO partners and working with them to develop what I've called a new playbook for NATO.
I agree with everything I said then, including the need to do what we've done this past year.
I personally would prefer... that we find another place to do it in the United States.
Undersea dominance is an area of clear American dominance. We want to keep that edge.
You do not dispute that the copay increased by----
One of the challenges with the kind of egregious behavior here is encapsulating it in a manner that is understandable.
Look, my point here is I have got your testimony. It is five pages long. It is single-spaced. There is a lot of information in here, and I a...
