John McCain

The United States should, therefore, consider additional options to deter Russian nuclear aggression.

The United States must also make sure that it has a credible response to any Russian battlefield use of nuclear weapons.

Washington should, therefore, study the development of new intermediate-range missiles and their deployment to Europe.

I, therefore, urge this body to fully fund the much-needed modernization of this country's nuclear forces and infrastructure as planned.

It is not only the right thing to do for the victims... it is also the right thing to do when it comes to putting together these cases against the people running these rings.

A 12-year-old should not be prosecuted for this. A 12-year-old is a victim.

We all know what a goal is. It is a free, stable, democratic Afghanistan.

I still believe that the Taliban cannot overtake the government.

Aviation is one of the areas of most critical I would argue.

We are proud of your great leadership.

Our support, however, cannot and should not be indefinite or unconditional.

General Campbell, there are reports that Afghan fighters, specifically Hazara, are supporting Hezbollah and Quds force efforts in Syria.

General Campbell, you talked about the efforts of President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah to reach out to the Taliban and to try and begin some sort of negotiations.

I would add logistics to that list.

General Campbell, please describe the sources and rough order of magnitude of amounts of funding for the Afghan Taliban including your assessment of what percentage of their overall funding each source provides.

Every witness before this committee... believes that we cannot have a calendar-based withdrawal from Afghanistan.

From a PR [public relations] standpoint, though, it was a rather significant victory for the Taliban.

I thought that usually--my study of warfare is you develop a strategy and you implement the strategy with a plan.

General Campbell, although President Barrack Obama has declared the end of the U.S. `combat mission,' it appears that the United States will still be conducting `combat operations' including counterterrorism operations.

I strongly urge you, when you counsel the President, to do the right thing. We all know what the right thing is.

President Ghani has asked on different occasions to continue to have coalition forces.

Well, I thank you. Again, General, I would like to again express my appreciation for the outstanding job you are doing under extremely difficult constraints.

We have an opportunity now, if we work very hard, to make this reconciliation piece a potential reality.

I don't think there's--if you ask the King of Jordan, I think he would say, absolutely, that they have posed a threat to the stability of his country because of Bashar Assad's actions.

I'm honored and humbled to be in your presence.