Martin Dempsey: “If he wants someone waterboarded, he better bring his own bucket.”

I think Afghanistan is and will remain an anchor point for that pressure.

You cannot kill all the militants in the world with all the air strikes in the world. It just doesn't work that way. You have to kill the ideology.

Absolutely. We are talking about a $1.2 trillion difference when you add up what was done in the $487 billion of the Budget Control Act.

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…