"If you want to prevent an invasion, wouldn't the provision of lethal aid to the Ukrainian military be a way to help to deter that invasion rather than wait until the invasion occurs and then try to fight a rearguard action?"
"It's going to require troops; is that not correct?"
"The best opportunity that we have to preclude China's expansionist tendencies in Asia is force presence."
"I can't resist, in closing, pointing out the irony of if we were called upon to come to the aid of one of our allies in that region against an expansionist China, given our terrible financial conditio..."
"There may be no one singular piece of equipment, but a general reinforcement and strengthening of their capability, whether it's with military hardware, whatever the panoply of weapons that they've lo..."
"I take it you're suggesting that the campaign in Syria may be also years."
"Force presence matters, and having forces... to be ready to respond immediately to our friends and allies, especially our allies there, matters."
"It's somewhat out of the scope of this hearing, Mr. Chairman, but I woke up this morning suddenly thinking about what happened in West Virginia, which was an accident."
"Some predictable funding level from year to year is an important part of your being able to meet this challenge?"
"It's just unacceptable to take 20 years to develop a new weapon system."
"I believe you have an explicit or implicit contract. People have expectations and that's what's going to make this problem exceedingly difficult to deal with."