I'm very concerned that Hugo Chavez is going to play by the same playbook as Ahmadinejad.

I think it's important that we sustain the legs that we have today.

There is a connection between Venezuela and Iran.

I would encourage you to, as one of your first things that you do, which I encouraged General Chilton to do the same thing, and I think he would reaffirm that this is good advice: Go visit the three national labs.

General Ham, we have a problem of drugs going into West Africa and then it just goes right on up to Europe.

The military means a lot to Florida, and Floridians love the military.

Southern Command and Africa Command is just a great example, where all the agencies of government are coming together to address a particular problem.

I think Africa Command in its uniquely interagency composition is in a posture to contribute to countering that effort.

I think the way in which AFRICOM could probably bring military assets to bear are in maritime domain awareness.

What is not pointed out enough, it seems to me, is that the exact same thing happened at the time of START I.

Their unilateral statement is not binding on us, it is not part of the treaty.

reducing the risk of relying solely on foreign crew transports for years to come