I think Kim Jong un has elevated that to a cycle of provocation, provocation, provocation.
If I were China, I would not want a nuclear-armed guy right on my border who could threaten me.
Part of the settlement in that case was we had a military force and the threat of military force.
This is a place where we really are in a serious deficit situation.
The real question is what ships do we have that are ready to fight.
Moving into construction before you have a mature design is a recipe for disaster.
I commend you for focusing in this budget on these issues of getting a higher level of maintenance and repair.
In my view, the major impediment is the structure which is so cumbersome and confusing and overlapping and dispersed tha...
That gets to my point about it has to be public. People have to know what the rules are.
I think we've got to have the capacity to deter.
To me, the most chilling finding of the board was--and this is a direct quote-- 'The unfortunate reality is that for at ...