"My feeling is, if they are struggling and they go seek help, that is a positive thing, as opposed to any type of black mark on their career."
"The last thing we want to see is somebody who is struggling be hesitant to seek help, because they are worried about, 'Will people start to look at me sideways because of this?'"
"How do we maintain a high level of readiness in the Guard as we go through decreasing budgets, decreasing deployments?"
"I introduced legislation earlier this year that ensures that this average becomes a minimum, not only for Active Duty, but for Guard and Reserve."
"How are we going to partner with industry? How are we going to work together with our intelligence officials and others to secure the integrity of the supply chain of what we have?"
"I would recommend we get working on that right away, in light of what we have seen going forward these days."
"I would ask you to make that a priority, because we are one counterfeit part away from disaster on a constant basis."
"In regards to Mr. Snowden's area, will there be a review through all of these contractor areas as to what is core to what we need to do and when we regard and review expense?"
"I would suggest that one of the first things you do is sit down and determine where did we go off the highway? How do we fix it? How do we square it away?"
"The sectarian violence in Iraq is very troubling."
"I was wondering if you are a proponent, as I am, of more aggressive forensic measures..."