Martin Dempsey: “I support this Convention on the Law of the Sea because it enhances my ability to provide security of the maritime…”

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.

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

the Iraq war remains one of the greatest United States foreign policy mistakes of the last century

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.