"There's a direct causality there, in your opinion?"
"It's a bunch of crap. It's a garbage argument and I think deep down my colleagues on the other side of the aisle know it in their hearts."
"How does it make you feel that not a single official has resigned, been relieved, then court martialed?"
"This was an utter lack of planning that their loved ones paid the ultimate price for."
"I have a revised amendment to the ANS."
"This is our final and most significant strategic advantage when it comes to deterring and countering the aggression of the Chinese Communist Party in the Pacific and around the world."
"Virtually all of our allies and partner countries in Asia now face a very serious national security threat from the Chinese Communist Party."
"The Navy has for years asserted it requires 66 nuclear attack submarines for its warfighting requirements. We are currently at 49."
"All of this--the inclusive language, the safe spaces, the microaggressions--may hide under a sheen of inclusivity, but it is actually an ideology which serves a purpose."
"Why weren't they comfortable in an inclusive environment going through their chain of command? And that is something that I think I encourage you to deeply, deeply think about."
"The NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act] strongly affirms that admission to our service academies must be on the basis of merit, not on skin color or ethnicity."