Political Quotes

“I still think that most Americans do not realize what we have done with that capability, because I just left the buildings in San Diego where, during World War II, we built bombers at a rate that was remarkable. We built a bomber aircraft per hour. That meant that in 1 day, in 24 hours, we would build more aircraft than we have in the entire B-2 fleet. And in some cases, in missions in Europe and other places, we lost more than that many planes in a day. Yet the B-2 fleet, because it has the ability to avoid and evade enemy radar and, therefore, the ability to penetrate into an enemy's airspace directly over target, coupled with precision munitions, where instead of dropping a giant payload of hundreds of bombs on a bridge or another asset, you send one precision-targeted munition into that one strut on that bridge and bring it down, that capability, that precision munitions, coupled with stealth that we have with B-2, has made us very effective.”