Walter B. Jones: “Politics is local. There is no question about it.”

I never will forget Donald Rumsfeld, the former Secretary of Defense, sitting where you are telling this committee that he will account for every dollar of the taxpayer.

I want to talk about the graveyard of empires. I think that is what they say about Afghanistan and the history of Afghanistan.

Mr. President, I agree with those remarks and so does the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps, my friend and unofficial adviser, General Chuck Krulak. As he said in a recent email to me, no one has ever conquered Afghanistan, and many have…

Why do we in Congress keep increasing the budget? I am all for the warfighter. He or she deserves whatever we can give them.