"the number that General Mattis came up with in order to meet the National Defense Strategy... should be at least a 3 percent-plus number net of inflation."
"We need your best advice as to what the mix of U.S. military assets are required to deter a hostile and aggressive Iran."
"Seven years after Russia first invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea, Moscow is visibly massing military forces along the common border."
"I hope the pressures continues on these countries in Europe to meet their obligations to NATO."
"the Biden administration has been dragging their feet."
"We are always going to have to achieve a certain amount of risk. We are going to have to balance the needs of our defense strategy against the acceptable risk that we need to take."
"Adversaries like China and Russia continue to challenge the rules-based order that America and our allies have created over the past century."
"The numbers of people in the Department of Defense civilian workforce has never been higher relative to those in uniform."
"Russia never stopped in designing and building nuclear weapons and weren't honest about what they are up to."
"I continue to be concerned by the efforts of some in this body to significantly cut the Department of Defense budget."
"the chaos on our southern border reminds us of the perils of taking our eye off the ball and allowing our own hemisphere to become a victim of strategic neglect here in Washington."