John McCain

We must enhance NATO force presence in an eastern Europe to include American forces.

I urge the members of this committee to take a different approach, to challenge responsible Russians to see how strange and counterproductive their country's policies looks to the outside world, not to make ourselves look equally strange.

If we continue to wring our hands and continue to be dominated by fears... then Russian aggression will not just advance in the Middle East.

Senator McCain, you were recently in the region

Putin believes that European and American leadership is weak.

How can the United States stand by and do nothing?

Hopefully we will bring this issue to a conclusion, which means that these men and women who are suffering today on a daily basis are able to be freed of both the bondage in which they are existing and the threats to their lives which…

The United States should do everything in its power, I think, to avert that situation and make sure that what's happening in Syria does not happen in the skies of--over Iraq.

My personal belief is that the longest road to victory here is purely an air campaign.

We have been trying for years to get the State Department to react... to try to get this issue resolved and these people, who are now in greater and greater danger, what we promised them.

I just think the United States should show more responsibility for the commitment we made, and should exert more leadership in bringing this to a close.

I think that such statements are not only insulting to our commitment, but also just show how deeply the Iranian influence has permeated the--Baghdad--the capital of Iraq and its leadership, unfortunately.

I do hope that we can continue to do everything possible, and that this committee will do everything possible, to urge that the residents of Camp Liberty are allowed to emigrate either to the United States or to someplace safe.

That guarantee was in return for them giving up their weapons, and, in giving up their weapons, we said we would guarantee their safety and gave them--under the Geneva Conventions.

In other words, the word of the United States of America that they would be protected.

I think it's time for us to do that in Iran.

They deserve our support, and actually they're a--they would constitute a form of pressure on the government in Tehran.

I want to make it clear that I will not tolerate a disruption of the workings of this committee, and I will say that anyone who does will be arrested, not ejected, but arrested.

Our mission was to ensure that Afghanistan would never again be a safe haven for al-Qaeda or other radical Islamist terrorists to attack us again.

We have seen a remarkable progress in Afghan society: more schools and more teachers; greater opportunities for women and girls in the classroom, in the workforce, and in positions of leadership.

It's my understanding that AT&L has decided to designate AAG as an MDAP category 1C, in which the Navy retains decision authority for the program, vs. 1D, where AT&L takes over.

Who made the decision to proceed with simultaneous design and production of the AAG even though problems with the water twister were discovered late in the development process?

It took almost 2 years after breaking the MDAP threshold for AAG to be elevated to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition.

What are the Navy's updated plans to address limitations to the Nimitz-class arresting capability that led it to be part of the AAG business case to begin with, and what costs do we expect to see for this?

Significant questions still remain about the capability and reliability of the core systems of these aircraft carriers.