I think the Asia-Pacific remains the strategic center of gravity for the 21st century.
Our fathers must have come out of the same cloth, which is to value the freedom that America provides is our unique and distinguishing contr...
Is it fair to say that if you are confirmed as Secretary of Defense, that the goal that you see is to turn responsibility for security of Af...
As President Obama has said, all options have to remain on the table.
We can't simply--if I can use probably a poorly phrased metaphor here--but, if we were a rubber band and have been stretched over the last 1...
I hope they do, because I think it's necessary to protect all that we've given there to achieve what has been achieved.
All of us are haunted by the phrase 'hollow Army'. We don't want to go through that again.
I thought the President made not only a correct, but a courageous decision in 2009 in deciding to raise the number of our forces in Afghanis...
I, too, have felt that the no-fly zone ought to be under active consideration, premised on a request from the opposition.
It seems to me it is fair to say that the drawdown of our end strength, how many people we have in uniform, ought to be conditions based as ...
Another alternative, obviously, is to try to help the opposition and stop Gaddafi.
I am really grateful for the opportunity to appear before you now, not from my customary seat, in order to introduce Dr. Ash Carter.
If anything, over the last 2 years I think Ash Carter has strengthened his case, the case for him to assume at this particular time this ext...
I appreciate that. That's a very balanced answer and I think you have your anxieties well in control.
With its nuclear activities and its surrogate activities in southern Iraq, there is a high potential that Iran will make a serious miscalcul...
As long as we have those soldiers there, we're going to do whatever we have to do to protect them.
If we don't show that we recognize that the Nation has a significant economic problem and then do our part, whatever that part may be, to he...
It was on whether or not the Fort Hood shootings could have been prevented.