Leon Panetta: “[t]he evidence that our oceans face a greater array of problems than ever before in our nation's history surrounds us.”

The facts have to be presented to the American people, and it's the American people who will judge what is right or wrong.

Well, it should not have happened. I don’t care what excuses you want to use, it should not have happened.

It’s poor planning to wind up with your stockpiles of key weapons being depleted.

I don't like the idea that former soldiers who served well, uh, at least during the time they spent in the military, uh, that somehow there was something that happened that then turned them into terrorists.