Jon Kyl: “The sooner we get your views on these three issues, the sooner we will be able to deal with them in appropriate way.”

One of the things that we noticed in this endeavor is there is a great attitude among the military, among the Defense Department generally in being able to succeed at a mission.

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

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.

We have to make decisions now to make sure that we have the capacity to build whatever we're going to need to build.