Congratulations on what you're doing.

The drugs are coming north, and we are sending money and guns south. As a consequence, these cartels have gained extraordinary power.

America cannot meet the threats of this century alone.

What are you doing in coordination with the MDA and Strategic Command to realistically test the GMD?

The Fourth Fleet has been very positive for SOUTHCOM and our efforts.

Now, if you're talking about the layer, such as Aegis, the answer to that is yes.

We're developing a national missile defense system. Do you think that the system needs to be operationally effective, suitable, survival, and cost-effective?

I want to compliment General Ward and Admiral Stavridis as you are adapting to this new policy where you're not only a warrior, you're also a diplomat.

Do you think that we need to take the steps needed to make sure that the system is all of those things?

The bottom line question is: Is it operationally effective so that in fact if we had the threat it could do the job?

The kind of funds which have been allocated to Mexico are small compared to what we spend in other places.

When you see how much drugs are coming into this country from Mexico, threatening our young people and older people alike, I think we just have to do a lot more about it.

We talk about illegal immigrants coming in from Mexico. It is a lot more serious if illegal weapons are going into Mexico.

The facts about what is going on in Mexico are staggering, posing an enormous threat to the United States.

The United States is a major cause of the problem on smuggling, weapons smuggling.

The American people don't have the luxury of just focusing on Wall Street. They don't have the luxury of choosing to pay either their mortgage or their medical bills.

We need to make sure that those resources are not closed off as we seek to develop more in terms of our renewables.

Today, over 80% of the nation's total energy consumption comes from conventional sources like coal, oil, and natural gas.