Jon Kyl: “Is it not a fact that Saddam Hussein said that if he had had the bomb, he would have used it? I know Muammar Qadhafi…”

The first thing we've got to do is have a conventional capability which is so dominant that no party would ever consider a nuclear attack against the United States.

Our responsibility is to be straightforward with you all. You're the ones that appointed us, you're the ones that we answer to.

It makes our planning much more difficult.

It's enough that it's opportunistic. In other words, we're in a conflict with one, and the other sees that this is an opportunity.