Political Quotes

“I want to note to my colleagues in the full committee and all the Members that this is one of those occasions, as you can see with respect to this substitute amendment, there is solidarity in the Committee on National Security, on the Democrat side, on the Republican side, on all shades of the political spectrum. This is the reason: No matter how much we disagree about weapons systems and about strategies and about budget numbers, we all agree on one thing, one fact that comes home to us every time we have a conflict. When we move out to project American power, we carry that power, whether it is marines or soldiers or ammunition or aircraft and all the logistics that you have to take to a foreign place to fight a war on ships. In Desert Storm we carried 95 percent of our war materiel on ships, not on airplanes, and everybody knows that. South Korea is not going to complain because we want to maintain our shipbuilding base.”