Angus King actually said...

"I think we've got to have the capacity to deter."

"What bothers me, Mr. Chairman, if there is an attack--and I don't think it's if, I think it's when--and we go home, and I go home to Maine and say, well, we couldn't really defend ourselves because we..."

"Well, I don't think we have five years. This is the longest windup for a punch in the history of the world."

"If you're right, that technically we can't defend ourselves, then deterrence is the only answer."