We have to change the dynamic that we're having with North Korea.

If we continue to use tweets after the President is sworn in on January 20th, I get a little concerned, because it is too easy to misconstrue those words.

The way we have been handling it isn't working.

There shouldn't be any doubt in anybody's minds. This was not something that was done casually.

I commend the chairman for his leadership in bringing the 55th consecutive NDAA across the finish line. This legislation includes vital provisions, such as a pay raise for our troops, a fix to the end strength, and it begins to address the…

You want civilian control of your military in all cases.

Trust me, there won't be long before they're listening to General Mattis on his advice.

No. I don't think so. This is one of the things that I think they're going to have to figure out.

The chief of staff's job is to implement the president's directives and take all of that massive amount of information that gets thrown at the president every single day and make decisions.

You know, I think that plays into every candidate for office. Sometimes your best campaign strategist doesn't make a good governance person.

I think the next administration is going to need all hands on deck. I think the world is a dangerous place with lots and lots of challenges.

Sometimes in politics, you know, in the palace intrigue, there are people who are in and people who are out.

The timing was probably right, if they wanted to make a change, they clearly wanted to make a change in this regard, and so it came down that it was time they wanted to go in a different direction.

As we prepare for a war to extend into space, is it time we think of the NRO as a combat support agency?

I think this whole notion that everything is outrageous that he says and everything is offensive... I didn't hear him say.

It is my job to be realistic. And I am very frustrated.

Don't you find it interesting that in the public-private partnerships we require them to set aside money for deferred maintenance but yet we don't do it in our own budgeted project items?

To ignore that, I think, would constitute congressional malfeasance.

I think that we can't help but take note of--you said a lot of important things, but one particular statement, and that is that there is no greater risk to our nuclear enterprise than this deferred maintenance.

I want to pledge to you that I am going to do all I can to work with the ranking member to help convince our colleagues that we need to meet this challenge more aggressively because the risk to our nuclear enterprise is completely…

I saw Hillary Clinton talked about she was going to do more of the same thing.

I think Senator Gillibrand has some pretty good understanding of how you fix it. It hasn't been done, which means now you have all of those women who aren't getting the justice that they deserve.

You are never going to resolve these deferred maintenance issues at the pace we have been addressing them.

I'm deeply worried about what I consider to be a failure to respond to Russia's violation of the INF treaty.

I do not believe that malicious cyber activity by adversaries can only be, or must be, deterred by cyber activity.