I strongly support the National Guard and Reserves.

My support of Israel's security is and always has been very clear. I strongly support Israel.

We must keep all options on the table, including the military option.

I support the President's plan to transition full security responsibility to the Afghan National Security Forces by the end of 2014.

The ability of militant and terrorist networks to operate on Pakistani soil poses a threat to the United States, Pakistan, and other countries in South Asia.

I agree with the Defense Department's new strategy and move to rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region while maintaining focus on challenges in the Middle East.

Compliance with legal obligations is central to the effectiveness of arms control treaties, and concerns about non-compliance must be addressed.

America's nuclear deterrent for more than 60 years has played a central role in ensuring global security.

Only after there is a change in regime in Syria and serious changes in the regime's behavior in Tehran, can we conceivably think about long-term relationships.

I want to make it clear that if confirmed I will make it a priority to minimize the impact of sequestration on our wounded warriors and their families.

I've never thought engagement as weakness. I never thought it was surrender. I never thought it was appeasement.

Probably most fundamental for me when we talk of going to war, we need to think it through carefully, not just for the political, and the geopolitical, and the diplomatic, and the economic consequences, and those are important. But at…

I have made it clear I share Leon Panetta's and our Service Chiefs' serious concerns about the impact sequestration would have on our Armed Forces.

It is incumbent upon all of us to make decisions that will ensure our Nation is prepared to confront any threat.

I believe that providing the necessary resources for nuclear modernization of the triads should be a national priority.

We are not going to unilateral disarm. Verifiable. It has to be bilateral. It has to be negotiated.

I am a supporter of Israel. In some cases, I have said I am a strong supporter of Israel.

The reason that they didn't is because they were involved in negotiations with the Russians in the U.N.