John McCain

The sooner we get immediate resources over there, the sooner we can turn this situation around.

A strategy in order to succeed requires an assessment of resources needed, right?

I think that we are either going to change and give the American people the defense capabilities and care for the men and women in the military, which is our obligation, or we are going to continue, as Secretary Gates calls it, an…

I am proud of the President who has threatened vetoes on several issues.

I strongly, strongly support the existing position and policy, and that policy has been in place since 1994.

Nearly a third of these suicides have never deployed.

I have known Congressman McHugh since 1993. I greatly admire his record of service to the people of northern New York and the military men and women in his district.

I have fought it for many years, and I will never give up the fight until the day that I leave the U.S. Senate.

I believe JPAC is resourced to accomplish their current mission requirements.

I raise it in the context of an attempt that I think is going on now, led by the President and strongly led also by the Secretary of Defense, that we stop some of this.

I welcome them and their families, and I thank them for their willingness to serve in these positions of great responsibility at a critical time in our history.

I believe JPAC is currently structured and resourced to accomplish their current mission requirements.

I believe it is in our national security interests to do the same.

I have to say, though, there is an aspect that I find troubling and that is a record of accepting campaign contributions from lobbyists like Paul Magliocchetti.

I do support exploring improvements in the organizational structure, methods, and procedures, to include outsourcing, that show promise of increasing JPAC's capabilities.

I feel strongly that we should reduce our nuclear forces to the lowest we judge necessary;

Even though the days of hair-trigger superpower confrontation are over, as long as other nations possess the bomb and the means to deliver it, the United States must maintain a credible strategic deterrent.

If the North Korean ship refuses to grant that consent, then what happens?

Congress needs to do its part by funding the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program--for safety, for security, and for a more reliable deterrent.

If a North Korean ship vessel like the Kang Nam last month leaves port and is delivering illicit weapons to an unfriendly port such as Burma, which we believed at the time was the case, what action can the United States military take?

I think you would agree, General, the reason why we succeeded in this counterinsurgency in Iraq is because we had sufficient forces to provide an environment of security, so economic, political, and all the other aspects of a free and open…

I am concerned that there is a perception that we are backing away from the commitments we made during the past administration.

I think we are rightly concerned about the situation in North Korea.

The Senate recently adopted a resolution which Senator Levin and I, along with Senators Ben Nelson and Graham, co-sponsored recommending that 2009 be recognized as the Year of the Military Family.

I strongly support the U.S. accession to the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea.