"Lower the bar for investment?"
"Thank you so much for your service over the years, and we particularly appreciate your frankness when you address so many of our tough questions."
"I am also very excited that your successor, who has been nominated by the President, I am confident will be confirmed by the Senate, General Charles Brown, the first African-American Chief of Staff no..."
"What can we do 81 years later as a Congress to enable you to achieve the diversity, not just for the sake of the diversity, but to enable you and our Nation to meet the readiness needs and the challen..."
"There is not a combatant commander that we have a discussion with, there is virtually nobody we deal with, day to day, who doesn't need more."
"We need each of those in our society and most importantly, we need to value them equally."
"There are 214 lawyers in Congress and only one electrician, and you are looking at him."
"The narrative that somehow in order to make it in this world you have to go to a 4-year degree is something that we are hearing today over and over."
"Today, there are only 47 African Americans who fly fixed wing in the Air Force. That is 1.5 percent."
"Buy some used vessels quickly, and then really work hard on this CHAMP [Common Hull Auxiliary Multi-Mission Platform] or whatever program we need to do to get numbers out there greater than onesie, tw..."
"It really changes fundamentally. We keep talking about it, and two ships doesn't do it."