"I commend you on that project and hope you will give it the highest priority."
"The sequester has nothing to do with that whatsoever, and we have to be having that discussion."
"It appears that as of today the greatest threat to American national security is the U.S. Congress."
"Eisenhower retook Europe in 9 months. I don't see any reason that this shouldn't be cleared up in 9 months."
"I think what's going on around here is an insult to the word 'chaos'."
"I think is something that we ought to bend over backwards never to repeat again."
"An unready force is a term that should strike fear into everyone that is listening to us today."
"Korea is often characterized as 'the forgotten war'. But in looking at the situation where we have a very vigorous country of 50 million people in the south and a miserable despotism in the north, I c..."
"What is our strategy for deterrence of madmen with nuclear weapons, people that are not necessarily rational..."
"the strategy of deterrence may work with Russia but an Iranian terrorist cell who thinks that if they die in a holy war, they are going to go straight to heaven--deterrence is not necessarily a viable..."
"Since the 1950s, our strategy with regard to nuclear weapons has been deterrence, mutually assured destruction..."