"What would be the cost of leaving the National Guard as is and implementing the rest of the plan?"
"I don't understand. Can you make the argument to me why a National Guard unit needs Apache helicopters?"
"On the National Guard side they are going to be gaining Black Hawks, is that correct?"
"How long does it take to bring a Guard unit up to combat readiness?"
"But the basic idea is that the Guard would like to maintain and have its hand in this piece of the combat readiness."
"I want some larger thinking than just military drone strikes and other options of that nature."
"I think the next Pearl Harbor is going to be cyber, and I certainly hope that we're going to be prepared, better prepared, than we were in 1941."
"You have just made the point, I think, that the Assad regime is almost wholly dependent, is it not, on the support of Russia and Iran?"
"If the Afghan Security Forces continue to progress--I do not think the Taliban can defeat the Afghan Security Forces."
"I would suggest, gentlemen, that we all need to collectively be thinking about this, because if you kill one, and two come back, that's an endless task."
"I think that it would be a significant accomplishment, sir, and I think it would diminish tensions throughout."