Duncan Hunter

Nations that make things have cash; nations that don't make things borrow cash.

Initiative, leadership, and the willingness to take risk.

I am convinced that this group of young folks will return and make a great difference to the future of America.

We have got to break the pencil.

I think we should put tariffs on Chinese goods, fairly strong tariffs in the national interest.

China is developing the ability, and I think their--at this point their game plan with respect to taking on the U.S. Navy is not to try to build a counterpart to the carriers and the attending ships, but to have the ability to kill them at…

Has the world become a safer place? Is the war against terrorists over?

I think this Nation has to retrieve its industrial base.

First, we are still fighting the war in Afghanistan. It is a difficult, complex war, but a winnable war.

I think there needs to be a major directive on that.

At this point we are about ready to go into a historic drawdown if these proposed budget cuts occur that will be devastating to national security near-term and long-term.

You have to fast-field equipment, and there is a disconnect between the bureaucracy here that doesn't want to let go of the acquisition process.

the great thing about this committee is you find common ground, Democrats and Republicans.

the automatic budget cuts that are proposed by the Joint Committee will badly damage America's national security in the near term and in the long term.

the Secretary of Defense is authorized and empowered with one stroke of his signature to waive all acquisition regulations

We built a small jammer that we called 'Little Blue' that was man portable.

It is not being utilized by the Pentagon.

I don't think there is an American breathing who would say that whatever we invested in that effort was worth every penny.

We must retrieve our industrial base. It is part and parcel of our national security.

I have always thought it was to provide them with security.

The second success is one that I regret that we had to work on together, but I am glad we did, and that is the MRAP program that saved countless numbers of lives.

I would predict that this budget starts us on a road in which China by 2020 will be the dominant force in the Western Pacific.

What would you suggest that the role of the committee should be in maximizing those successes and eliminating the deficiencies?

I am afraid that a national infrastructure bank, as proposed either by this legislation or the administration, is dead on arrival in the House of Representatives.

Rather than create a national new bureaucracy, another agency, I think we can utilize the existing infrastructure banks.