"Admiral McRaven, looking well into the future, are you concerned about the projected 60 percent reduction in undersea strike volume?"
"These are choices that we are certainly, we know from even Secretary Panetta's testimony, taking on some risk with."
"I can't imagine anyone on this committee would ever stand for hollowing out our force."
"Secretary Panetta and Chairman Dempsey have said that sequestration will hollow out our force."
"I hope that we act immediately on this on a bipartisan basis."
"I was proud to join my colleagues... in writing a letter to Secretary Panetta to express our outrage regarding the Russian arms sales."
"If you know someone is killing someone and committing murder... and you knowingly provide them with arms, you are not just standing silent; you are actually an accomplice to those killings."
"Unfortunately, this is part of the pattern for Russia."
"we must be better prepared to respond to threats that give us little to no advance warning"
"are we doing all we can to defend the Homeland against long-range missile threats?"
"So we'll have a nine-submarine shortfall in 2030 if we continue with the proposed build rate that we have in this budget?"