Ray Mabus: “Maintaining a credible, modern, and survivable sea-based strategic deterrent is the Navy's top priority.”

Even after death, his voice still spoke, his struggles continued and his cause [was] taken up by countless others.

Because of the long lead time needed for shipbuilding, it is not the job of one administration. It is not the job of one Congress.

If it was not giving us what we needed, or if it was too expensive, or if it wasn't going to perform in the way that it should, we killed them.

It follows then as certain as night succeeds day that without a decisive Naval force we can do nothing definitive and with it everything honorable and glorious.