Samuel Nunn

I have no illusions about the challenge before us. It really pays to neglect or underestimate Russia or display gratuitous disrespect.

As former Senator Sam Nunn has argued, we should engage in our own cold-blooded self-interest, as well as Russia's, on issues where we can both benefit.

The key to solving the North Korea nuclear problem without a war is working with China. So alienating China--you pay a price for that.

I strongly support a vigorous analysis and debate over the U.S. strategic relationship with Russia.

Rex Tillerson doesn't have the typical background of a nominee for Secretary of State, but in today's world, I believe that this will prove to be an advantage for our nation.

I know Rex Tillerson pretty well, and I am confident that he is well prepared to do what is essential for the security of our Nation.

Russia's recent flagrant actions indicate that its national interests sharply differ from America's national interests in important places, most acutely in Ukraine, in Europe, and in Syria.

I agree with Chairman Corker, Russia has been less than effective in dealing with its nuclear program.

The Nunn-Lugar Act in 1991 is a prime example of Democrats and Republicans working together to make the world safer.

The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program has been a true success story and has made incredible contributions to U.S. national security in the last 20 years.

Chuck Hagel believes that we must build and preserve American strength as a force for good in the world.

He also knows that war should be a last resort and that our Nation must effectively use all of our tools, not limited only to our military, to protect our important and to protect our vital interests.

Chuck Hagel knows that the United States has vital interests that are worth fighting for and dying for.

I believe that our Nation is fortunate to have a nominee for Secretary of Defense with the character, the experience, the courage, and the leadership that Chuck Hagel would bring to this position.

The potential use of nuclear weapons is one of the gravest dangers the world faces.

The nuclear threat has fundamentally changed since the end of the Cold War.

The potential use of nuclear weapons is one of the gravest dangers the world faces.

Now is the time to make these investments to provide the foundation for future U.S. security.

And there is an emerging bipartisan consensus that now is the time to make these investments to provide the future foundation for our U.S. security.

Maintaining high confidence in our nuclear arsenal is critical as the number of these weapons goes down.

Due to courageous leadership in countries like Kazakhstan, as well as here in the United States by visionaries like Senators Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn, the threat of nuclear materiel falling into the hands of terrorists was diminished.

This vision helps us get up to the base camp. Without that vision, we feel we're going to slip farther down the mountain.

On the day after a weapon of mass destruction goes off someplace in the world, what are we going to say that we did in order to have avoided that now reality?

I saw how Congress made providing for the men and women in uniform a paramount concern to the basic functioning and strength of the armed services.