"We don't need a 600-ship Navy, as we did when we faced the entire Soviet fleet, but we certainly need a good deal more than the 280 ships we have today."
"The threat has not gotten less since that report was given to Congress."
"We have been down this road before."
"Yes, in a crisis the Navy can do more with less, but for sustaining peace you cannot do more with less, you can do less with less."
"I want to echo the chair's comments about the fact that this is a team on this subcommittee."
"Thank God we did it. And the program is I think performing better than even its proponents expected at the time."
"We have obviously got to get an omnibus done to make that a reality."
"I actually give you pretty high marks about the fact that the system of doing block grant, block contracts with fixed price, you know, that is firm has really I think changed behavior within industry."
"I look forward to working with you."
"the topic of sequestration is probably the most critical facing our country in the near term."
"Sequestration would be a disaster for this country in terms of having, again, an indiscriminate mechanism go through the domestic budgets and national security budgets of this country."
"The notion that that employer was obligated to have a mass blanket WARN notice, frankly, is just completely disconnected from the reality of how they hire and how they build programs that take years t..."