the United States military should not be a social engineering experiment.

Integrated deterrence may sound good in White House meetings, but I can tell you that on the ground in Eastern Europe, and in the South Pacific, it just doesn't fly.

It fails to keep pace with record inflation.

Rather than keeping pace with the threat from China, the President's budget would let them lap us.

These retirements represent a huge loss of capability for the Navy and the Marine Corps.

All of this invites a tremendous amount of risk and the risk won't be mitigated for years.

I'm enormously proud of what this joint force is all about.

We have got to do everything we can that's possible, without going to war with Russia, to ensure that the Ukrainian people remain free and sovereign.

We are at, literally, in my view, a pivot point in the geostrategic history of Europe, for sure, and perhaps the globe with this invasion of Ukraine.

The only consistent criticism that I've heard in a bipartisan way on the effort in Ukraine is just simply the speed at which things are moving.

I was quite critical of the administration's handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. But I have to tell you, I think that the last 2 months of Putin's war in Ukraine, you've handled brilliantly and so I want to sincerely thank you for…

I would like for us to buy three, and then, use at least two of those along the eastern European flank on a loan basis.