James M. Talent: “I want to suggest to the Senate there is no more serious amendment we will consider in this debate on the budget than…”

“I want to suggest to the Senate there is no more serious amendment we will consider in this debate on the budget than the one Senator Warner is about to offer. America is deeply engaged in the world in all respects, and it should be, it needs to be. It is a difficult task, but it is one we bear every day as a nation in a lot of different ways. Yet despite all our other efforts, despite our diplomatic efforts, despite our participation in international organizations, despite the coalitions we have built around the world, despite our foreign aid, despite our exhortations based on our philosophy, despite the power of our ideas, as important as all of that is, America's security and the security of our allies and our friends around the world depends and continues to depend on the reality and the perception of our military power.”