"I share many of the concerns my colleagues have already expressed concerning the shortfalls in funding and capacity for the modernization of our nuclear weapons."
"DHS has been good to work with. They are growing their capabilities."
"Never has there been in my almost 49-year career in intelligence a more complex and interdependent array of challenges than we face today."
"The nation requires an executable plutonium production strategy to support the deployed force and reduce reliance on the nondeployed stockpile."
"While I am extremely confident in today's deterrent force, deferring modernization does increase risk across the nuclear enterprise."
"I think they can have an impact on the region. I think they can be a stabilizing factor in the long term."
"We cannot afford to be dependent on foreign sources of fuel."
"The most critical infrastructure will have to develop within itself or hire some of the private companies that do this the defensive systems."
"there's ongoing repression, in my opinion slaughter, by the Assad government of its people."
"This is not regulation actually. These are standards for what we are going to ask them to do to defend our country."
"I certainly wouldn't want us to go it alone."