Ray Mabus: “The RAND report was not well-researched and did not take into account the recent research and development advances in…”

If we don't get an American-made, more stably-based source of fuel, if we don't get some competition into the fuel, we're looking at fewer soldiers, fewer sailors, fewer platforms.

As President George Washington said, it follows then as night succeeds the day that without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

As the ice melts in the Arctic, our responsibilities clearly are going up.

I would never, ever, ever do anything to lower the combat readiness or the reliability of the United States military.