"This is a very unusual situation we have. We created this Space Force, and we took people out of the Air Force and other services."
"General Saltzman has a very small entity... but a very important one. His mission is absolutely critical in the country."
"There are only about 578 people that will be affected by this. You know, the Guard is over 100,000."
"The strength of a commission is to bridge partisan divides."
"The ultimate bipartisan commission in this Nation is called the Congress, and this Congress, as imperfect as it is, is where these decisions must be made."
"We have not fixed the problem. We knew that baby boomers were going to start retiring at a very rapid rate in 2008."
"if you can't do something like that, then what, pray tell, can you do to fix the bigger problem?"
"It is true, we are badly divided by partisanship because the American people are badly divided by partisanship, and what is Congress but a reflection of the people?"
"A commission may be the best shot we have to help us get back on track."
"the problem is not the process, it is the people."
"I can only characterize this new commission proposal as the proverbial definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result."