John McCain

I am sure you are probably not familiar with the names Igor Komarov or Sergey Chemezov or maybe even Dmitry Rogozin.

Do you know of any other Federal arrangement with any other defense corporation where you pay them $800 million a year simply to remain in business?

How can you compete when your competition is being paid $800 million a year just to stay in business?

So we have been paying since--what--2006 ULA $800 million a year to stay in business.

Space is key to projecting credible and effective power around the world to support our allies and deter aggression.

The benefits to Vladimir Putin, his network of corruption, and the Russian military industrial complex are also well known.

Today Russia holds many of our most precious national security satellites at risk before they ever get off the ground.

With Russia and China aggressively weaponizing space, we can no longer take for granted the relative peace we have enjoyed in space for nearly 60 years.

I do not think we can wait much longer.

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 future threats in the future.

I think that if we have military-to-military relationships with allies, friends, and potential adversaries, we're in a better posture to defuse a situation if something should happen.

Nuclear strike, depending on the circumstances, would require a declaration of war. Only the Congress can approve of a declaration of war.

The President proposes and the Congress disposes. I understand your point about the Commander in Chief. This administration has done more to ignore the Congress of the United States than any administration that I have been associated with.

I think Kim Jong-un has made it clear that's the development.

The Russians modernized each leg of their strategic triad. By 2020, 70 percent of their nuclear forces will be replaced with new systems.

I believe it's essential that we go faster in our responses.

We are not going down that path, Senator.

They are developing capabilities specifically designed to cripple our capabilities in space?

Do you think, given the flood of manufactured heroin that's coming across our southern border, that we should make use of the talents that exist, the National Guard?

There are many of us who think that funding should come out of the proper function, according to the appropriations process, rather than again dipping into what is clearly argued for defense.

Are you confident that we have sufficient military presence and activity in Libya to take care of ISIL and somehow restore or form up some kind of consensus government?

How are you going to make chicken salad out of this situation, General?

An abject, total disgraceful failure on the part of this administration and this President.

We have American troops on the ground, which never would have been required if we had done the things necessary...

I think it is a very heavy burden for them to carry given the state of our military today and the situations and challenges that we face in the world, which are just epitomized by the terrible tragedy in Orlando.