My judgment is that dispersion is still the situation. A nuclear carrier should be in Florida to replace the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy to get some dispersion.

If the Stockpile Stewardship Program can support a new replacement warhead, is there any doubt about its ability to support the Life Extension Program as well?

What we want to know, and we believe--because we believe in you--Admiral, as the principle uniform military advisor to the President, how would you manage and present the full range of advice presented to you by members of the JCS as…

I have not been told the truth over and over again by administration witnesses. And the American people have not been told the truth.

We've got to stop the oil companies from having it all their way. In the energy bill passed last year, they have $1.5 billion tax giveaway purely for the oil companies' research purposes. That needs to be reversed, and I'm going to try to…

Now, when the U.N. peacekeeping force comes up for reauthorizing, in the Security Council, what's going to be your posture about considering an expansion of that peacekeeping force?

Madam Secretary-designate, you can make a difference. If you'll jump on that horse and ride it, and keep on it over the next four years of your tenure, it'll start to pay huge dividends.

The problem is, they never follow through.

I've had a difference of opinion with the administration, and I think you did have a policy of regime change.

I want to suggest something to you. And it's a bill that is sponsored by one of our Republican colleagues, Mike DeWine of Ohio, and it's called the HERO Act.

When a leader, such as Chavez in Venezuela, starts lurching to the left, and yet we have a dependency there...

Haiti is a disaster. And it's going to continue to be a disaster until we get engaged and do something seriously...