"I could not agree more with your statement that we are at a pivot point where we have to modernize our approach to national security."
"What you have to do is you have to make certain that your foreign policy is led by the diplomat, not by the military."
"You failed to answer the question. You simply said that you hope Congress and the administration will be partners."
"Now, look, we all know that Trump, a draft dodger, in great contrast to yourself and the Chairman, who have served our country for decades, has often done things that are in his own personal or politi..."
"Mr. Secretary, when you took this job did you take an oath to the President or to the Constitution?"
"It is good to know there is at least three of us in answer to the President's question."
"The Tax Cut and Jobs Act in other words as the President refers to it."
"It would has the potential to be a sever negative economic impact with job creation slowing or going negative, output slowing or going negative."
"I'll tell you right now this war is not necessary right now."
"It's not in our strategic interests in the Middle East. It's not in our strategic interests globally to get bogged down in a war with Iran."
"The president's strike has reversed all of that progress, because now Soleimani is a martyr."
"Ultimately, what the president has done is not in the national security interests of the country."