"We don't want to get too deep in the weeds, but closing up the proper way. It is not the opening, it is the resealing that is the problem."
"In the interest of time, we will get the actual numbers, but they are going to meet the minimum sustaining rate?"
"But are you preparing? If the protest is upheld, it is going to drive that timeline."
"We want to make sure that, when we address their questions that they are based on reliable set of figures."
"we understand the dollars and cents, but the direction is the important one, that we are investing and we are now measuring that investment, that it was the right way."
"Well, I think what we will stipulate, we all know we aren't where we want to be."
"But what was the mechanism that didn't work to stop this further back before they went all the way through the submission phase?"
"understanding that the still-pending force structure modernization priorities we spoke about earlier, yet we are in the middle of a budget season, explain to us what 'lightened the force' means"
"Good morning. We will come to order."
"Democracy takes time, and certainly we just went through some of that."
"I like to refer to Reagan. We will trust, but we want to verify before we start doing this."