This is a tough time to cut the military budget drastically because we are at war.
The third leg of the stool is we have an All-Volunteer Force with whom we must keep faith.
I think the cumulative effect is that you are really a very impressive group.
None of us want to have more conflict, but we are not asking for it by our behavior.
If you could report back, if I could ask you, respectfully, to report back on how the Army will be finalizing those requirements, I would ap...
You say that you remain open to initiatives designed to further evolve existing programs.
When we talk about violent Islamist extremists, we are talking about a very small number of people in the Muslim-American community.
More broadly, our investigation uncovered a troubling lack of awareness among some U.S. Government officials about violent Islamist extremis...
The bottom line here is that the results of our investigation were both deeply troubling and really infuriating.
I think we ought to call them what they hate to be called. They liked to be called terrorists.
it is really important that the people who acted negligently--and I know we all have the clarity of hindsight here, but that they be held ac...
I agree with the report's conclusion that Hasan's open displays of violent extremism was a violation of military rules calling for good orde...
I'm hopeful that we'll continue the effort--I know of your very distinguished scientific background in areas of physics and so forth, as wel...
It does not take too many people to do a terrible amount of damage, as we saw at Fort Hood.
It should not be an act of moral courage for a soldier to identify a fellow soldier who is displaying extremist behavior; it should be an ob...
I wholeheartedly endorse the report's recommendations for reform in DOD to better protect against this threat.
I commend this Committee and the leadership of Senators Lieberman and Collins for their ongoing work in identifying this dangerous ideology ...
They deserve no less than our steadfast commitment to achieving the goals that we have set out in our report.
