John McCain

It is Congress' highest priority to be just as worthy of the sacrifices made by the men and women of our Armed Forces.

They would do anything to leave their workstations.

I agree with your assessment about our unpopularity, and it also seems to me that this is a window of opportunity for the United States of America to declare our assistance to these people, to help in their economies.

It literally puts people's lives in danger who were cooperating with us.

From an intelligence standpoint, it would be certainly helpful to have them recognized.

Should the United States consider recognition or let me put it this way: wouldn't it be helpful to their morale?

I think it's fairly obvious where their air assets are located and where most of their air defense assets are located.

This argues, at least in my mind, a greater urgency to make progress on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Two of the reasons might be that our failure to support the democratic movements within some of these countries robustly enough, and the other perhaps could be that we have not been able to assist them in the ways that they feel are…

Senator McCain, and in turn Senator Levin, expressed appreciation for the men and women in our IC.

I think personally--and General Burgess, I'm sure, has a view on this--that the likelihood of a conventional attack on South Korea is frankly rather low.

I think what has happened in Iraq has been a very interesting and encouraging evolution; they're going through a very difficult transition into a democracy.

In my many years of public service, I have never seen an international environment in which we have been called upon to confront more threats of greater diversity and magnitude, all at once, than we are in today's world.

I will not support a budget that reduces that number by 3,500.

Secretary Mabus, on February 22, 2011, the members of the Independent Review Panel to Study the Judge Advocate Requirements of the Navy submitted to the Secretary of Defense the report required by section 506 of the NDAA for Fiscal Year…

Border security is going to be one of our priorities this year

It is a colossal failure, a waste of over $1 billion, and that cannot be fixed.

I do not think that is acceptable.

We have to agree on certain criteria on what is successful securing of our border.

I think it would be very helpful to all of us if you could lay out what assets need to be devoted and what statistics would show us that the border is being secured.

We have seen the violence in Mexico grow dramatically.

I think it is important that we continue the conversation, and I appreciate the briefing that you gave me just the other day.

I would like for you to think about certain benchmarks and certain criteria that we could use to gauge success or failure.

I am convinced, tragically, that if the status quo remains, that violence will continue to spill over onto our side of the border.

As of February 2011, CBP did not have an estimate of the time and efforts that are needed to secure the Southwest Border.