the Iran nuclear agreement has extended the amount of time Iran would need to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon from a few months to about 1 year.

cuts to funding for research into energy efficiency and renewable energy improve America's future energy security?

I have no illusions about Vladimir Putin. I think he is a thug and a bully.

The Yemeni people are suffering, and this is a humanitarian crisis.

I think we need to think much harder about the role that DOD plays in future hurricanes because we know they are coming.

We've got to be very sensitive about what they're trying to steal from us; but, on the other, we've got to continue and even, I believe, ratchet up our investments.

The systems that comprise NC3 are aging, and they are far too critical to be left to chance.

Our technological superiority is not guaranteed in the future. We have to fund these programs today because they are the seed corn for our technological advances in the future.

Health care has been a particularly hard hit area.

Russia is hellbent on undermining democracy.

It's also an interesting point about the kinds of people you may attract, that people, for example, who are in high tech, who are in computing, they learn a lot while they are out, would like to come back, and you'd very much like to have…

Figuring out how best to tap into that group and make them an ongoing part of our military seems crucial to building and strengthening the kind of fighting force we need.