You are a most able advocate for the judges from California that you believe in, and I always respect your insight.

Well, who would find within that document a source of substantive rights? Legislatures do not need to use the Citizenship Clause to pass a welfare bill.

I do believe that is a serious defect--I mean, a serious lack, at least, in any judge who goes on a court one step below the Supreme Court.

I am over my time, Madam Chairman. Thank you.

It is clearly in accord with the most aggressive foreign law citation theories and I think are unacceptable.

I believe the values you express in your writings indicate that you have a very activist view of the role of a judge.

I consider them to be the most advanced statement of the activist judicial philosophy that I have seen.

I think the leadership of the committee in a bipartisan way moved this forward.

If that principle is violated, it actually violates the integrity of the bid process.

Isn't it now incumbent on the Air Force that you require this winner to fulfill the competition?

I could describe Senator McCain as a $7 billion man.

Secretary Donley, what is the total estimated cost avoidance to the government that resulted from the cancellation of the 2001 congressionally-authorized Boeing lease proposal to the current fixed-price contract?

I remain convinced that the criteria that were changed when this administration took office too much reduced the advantage the more capable aircraft would have.

EADS is a European ally of ours. Europe is an ally in so many ways.

Secretary Donley, what was the final bid price submitted by Boeing that ultimately won the most recent Air Force tanker competition?

You have to maintain the integrity. You can't just let the person get a low bid and then run up the price in the years to come.

It is very demoralizing and dangerous to release someone who is going to go back to the war and kill people.

I think is it the next year, 2013, that it's projected to go to just $50 billion?

I will not allow that relationship of trust to be violated.

I truly believe we have the greatest military the world has ever known.

The reason we have a severe financial crisis in America is not because of our military effort.

I do believe that the LCS will be cheaper to operate and be a step forward for the Navy.

For our economy it's better for those troops to be in the United States spending their wealth and creating tax growth for the local communities and jobs.

We need to ask ourselves a few things. All of us want to contain spending...

the United States cannot give away the work of its magnificent military in Afghanistan and Iraq by a too precipitous withdrawal.