"Instead of being inclusive, it simply makes words meaningless."
"I believe race-based admissions in any form violate the Constitution, and the military service academies must ensure immutable characteristics like race, like color, have no bearing on a candidate's a..."
"The concern of this committee is that we have political pressure to tip the scales from a meritocracy."
"We want equal opportunity for every single American. Equal opportunity, for every single American to serve."
"We do not have race-based composition goals at the academy."
"I cannot state strongly enough, if we did not have cadets, military members, their families bringing these issues to us on a consistent basis, we wouldn't be addressing them here."
"This isn't a way of thinking or a history class, this is present-day indoctrination."
"I have served in countries all over the world where woman aren't disadvantaged, they are brutalized."
"At the same time, that same woman who broke all of those barriers was quite offended when a classmate of mine, who is African American, got a scholarship, I didn't."
"Are they privileged systemically?"
"Frankly, a lot of the folks in this place also have Marxist backgrounds."