On the recordJuly 6, 2016
We have extremely high standards today. I think, in my having served in the United States Army when there was a draft, that having conscription--having people being forced to serve--compromises the extraordinary, I think, capability of our military. This is about putting it back on the shelf, as it was in 1973, and if the President, as Commander in Chief, ever felt it needed to come off the shelf, he or she could do so.
