John McCain actually said...

"when you use the Joint Strike Fighter as a success story, sir, you have lost the connection between the military and this committee."

"For more than seven decades, the aircraft carrier has been the centerpiece of America's global power projection."

"The only change to the program that Congress insisted upon was instituting a legislative cost cap on the three ships in the program."

"$40 billion that was spent on programs that never became reality. That is not an acceptable system or situation."