Denis McDonough actually said...

"We have right sized our eyes and our stomach in this program, having learned very hard lessons over the course of the last almost four years of deployment of the new system."

"I have great respect for CBO, but I can not speak for them."

"I want to directly address this issue about whether you would be taking something from another veteran or from a battle buddy."

"The reason they recommend we do it, the reason why I think we should do it, is the connection between mental health disorder, including suicide, and what clinicians call gender dysphoria is a very tig..."