Martin Dempsey: “Our military power will be less credible because it will be less sustainable.”

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…

There are five or six or seven places you can find money in a budget. They have looked. There is nothing left under the mattress.

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.

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.