John McCain

How can we carry out our functions of oversight if we do not get the kind of information we need?

The real reason why those apprehensions went down was because of the economy.

It is our responsibility and our obligation to our constituents.

Apprehensions are up 20 percent, that means that the border is less secure.

I cannot support your nomination until I get a yes answer.

This is not an academic exercise.

I would ask the same question of General Welsh: Has anybody been fired because of the cost overruns of the F-35? I don't think so.

We are tackling this problem. What I would tell you is we are holding people accountable, but we are not holding them accountable enough.

I want to thank the witnesses and I wish that every member of Congress and every American were tuning in to your testimony today so that we would have a sense of urgency that, unfortunately, is certainly not significant enough to bring us…

We can't go on like this. So we have to come up with a compensation package which deals with this.

Now, you didn't mention that we have a $2 billion cost overrun in the USS Gerald R. Ford. Tell me, has anybody been fired from their job as a result of a $2 billion cost overrun of an aircraft carrier?

I agree with former Secretary of Defense Gates, who said the 'entitlements are eating us alive,' the major one being growth of health care costs.

Secretary Stackley, the majority of the shipboard test programs for CVN-78 will not commence until after the launch in November 2013.

This is not a civil war any more. This is a regional conflict.

I am now at a position, tragically, where I now will have to rely on the Saudis to provide them with the weapons that they need, because it is patently obvious that the United States of America is not going to do so.

Your continued reliance on the Russians I find just such defiance of the history of Russian behavior that it is absolutely remarkable.

This is a shameful chapter in American history.

This is basically a formula for stalemate in Syria, with continued carnage and al-Qaeda growth there.

The reason why the Saudis have divorced themselves from the United States of America is because of what you just articulated to Senator Corker: trucks.

The centerpiece of U.S.-Saudi friction is the administration's more restrained approach in Syria.

For you to describe this as a, 'civil war' is a gross distortion of the facts.

To call the categorizing and removal of chemical weapons a huge success, it may be, but we are now in the Orwellian situation where the Russians are assisting us in our irreplaceable part of the scenario of identifying and removing…

We are not seeking to help the opposition win a civil war.

His killing remains unchecked, Ambassador Ford.

We are now seeing the end of this agonizing odyssey this body has been put through, but far more importantly the American people have been put through. It's one of the more shameful chapters that I have seen in the years that I spent here…