Martin Dempsey: “There are five or six or seven places you can find money in a budget. They have looked. There is nothing left under the…”

Our Government's policy has been they will not get a nuclear weapon, and nothing we are talking about here today should change that policy.

If we increase our supply of oil, especially into Eastern Europe, we will dent Russia's leverage on other countries and reduce the revenues that fund Russia's aggression.

If anybody here thinks I want to be the Chairman that goes down in history for having carved up pay and compensation and health care, I assure you I do not. I don't want to be that Chairman. The problem is there's going to be a Chairman…

As we look at our strategies for the future I think we have got to pay more and particular attention to energy as an instrument of national power, and I think that has to be factored in to the equation here.