10/23/2008
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"My primary job if I'm confirmed as a combatant commander, will be to make sure our forces are ready to respond today, but I'll have a secondary job, is to advocate for capabilities to respond to futur..."
"We are not going down that path, Senator."
"The Russians modernized each leg of their strategic triad. By 2020, 70 percent of their nuclear forces will be replaced with new systems."
"Nuclear strike, depending on the circumstances, would require a declaration of war. Only the Congress can approve of a declaration of war."