"I have never heard a rational answer to that question."
"The choices made during the acquisitions process when procuring new platforms affect the decades of sustainment that follows."
"We have five John Lewis-class oilers in this budget fundamental to what we want to do with both the Navy and the Marine Corps."
"I would recommend to you that we could meet the needs of logistics, maybe that second half of the half full cup, by utilizing the Jones Act ships that are presently available."
"The meeting will come to order."
"I will not tolerate any longer what has been--we're going to get on with it. We're going to do it."
"It has not been solved. It has not been--the attention necessary to sustain this $1.7 trillion platform has not occurred, plain and simple."
"They're going to have to go--maybe the engine is not working, which is a Pratt & Whitney problem."
"I'm coming at you in a very angry mood. You gave us an engine, and it doesn't work."
"I want to see what it is you are going to accomplish with regard to ALIS-ODIN in the next 365 days."
"The problem of the F-35 is a shared problem. It's a problem of the contractor, Lockheed Martin, and others."