"Our missile stockpiles are being stretched thin after years of reducing it at a minimum rate of sustainment."
"I think the reality is that kind of gets us out of the hole that we are currently in but does not do any for planning in the sense, you know, making the system where it works better."
"What we do not want to do is repeat the same implementation."
"We anticipate working hard, getting this done, another 500,000 or so a year?"
"It is time to go back to the fundamentals."
"This is a mess, and I know that we are all committed to helping get it straightened out."
"The answers need to come from the ground-up."
"Sometimes we do not do as good a job on the oversight as we--and that is nobody's fault. I mean, it is our fault."
"Again, inflation is such a difficult thing, you know, in so many different areas."
"You know, we say one thing, and yet--and again, you are the Federal Government. I am the Federal Government. We cannot continue to put additional burdens that actually go against what we are saying."
"Let us get it to the areas that do not have it, as opposed to the areas that have pretty good that want better."