"Suffice it to say, it is hard for you to give us specific numbers to project."
"But you are asking for a budget number that would improve that. Are you not?"
"We might as well settle this on the record. How do you pronounce your last name?"
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"Are our allies and our adversaries having this same problem with pilot shortages?"
"You cannot give us that number of how you hope to look in 5 years?"
"Well, what figure would that be? We have 2,031 current. How many do we need?"
"Is it time to take a fresh look at the MRAP program?"
"Secretary Speer and General Milley, let me start off by asking about the Lakota, the Army's primary training helicopter..."
"We have a populace in Afghanistan who supports our presence there."
"I just think it is very important for you to know, and for everyone listening to know, that we need to move beyond anything that puts us at a stalemate in Afghanistan."