"Those comments essentially put the party on quote, 'thin ice.'"
"the President's budget, you know, calls for a 4 percent increase in defense spending and a 12 percent increase for nondefense spending and domestic spending."
"if we stick to this budget, we're going to see a 4.5 percent cut to the military."
"I don't like where we're going, especially after Ukraine and a rising China."
"I hope you don't mind a guy named Bacon asking some good beef questions to you."
"I've been preaching this concern now for about 3 years because if Russia turns off their energy and Ramstein is so pivotal to what we're doing that the--it doesn't just make sense."
"I will oppose it and I hope the Congress does."
"What Putin is really saying is might makes right. I'm a bully. You can't stop me."
"The number one feedback we do hear from them is they would like to have U.S. troops permanently assigned in the Baltics for deterrence."
"The fact that America is going to be giving Russia today $70 million to purchase oil... is propping up their economy."
"Having a U.S. flag there, a permanent one, is a deterrence."