We need to be thinking about modularization and modernization as built into the concept because we are building a 35- or 40-year asset, and it is obsolete the day it is built.

I cannot help but believe that there is overlap having these multiple intelligence agencies essentially all watching what Assad is doing or what Putin is doing.

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I think a point you made that I had not really thought about was the idea of a joint private sector cybersecurity effort perhaps facilitated by the Government but not with Government involvement so we do not have the privacy issues.

The requirements proliferate because everybody wants their--it is the problem of a camel is a horse designed by a committee.

Trying to develop a weapon system that has everything for everybody at one time that will be fixed in time is just the wrong way to go.

I think that is an issue that deserves some serious thought and discussion.

It is the question of what is an act of war and when will we respond because if an act of war is not defined, your opponent has to know that you are going to consider it an act of war and that there will be a response.

When people know what the rules are, that is when you can avoid conflict.

We have to be able to field new technologies faster.

The national debt is a threat, not to define our defense budget.

What should we be doing about it, if anything? What are our alternatives?

To me, the most serious threat is capability plus will. And what makes me lose sleep is North Korea.

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I would suggest to the Senator that if you are in a fight and all you can do is defend and never punch, you are going to eventually lose that fight. I think this is an important area. The theory of deterrence, as distasteful as it might…

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We need to recognize that in many instances we have lost the trust of the American people as an institution.

The fact that outsiders are doing so well this year, it seems to me, is something we should think about in terms of the relationship of government to the American people.

I consider the positions that you have been nominated to be incredibly important because of the underlying issue of trust of our democratic system.

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There are a number of countries that I think I would like to see more positive on the human rights situation in North Korea.

I think it is just very difficult to speculate and calculate, assess what the post-Kim Jong-un political leadership may look like.

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Putin wants Assad in more than we want him out.