John Warner: “I will never forget, on September 11, Chairman Levin and I went over to the Pentagon.”

You're a man of courage and you take on the tough jobs in that Congress and do the very best you can to achieve working relationships.

You will carry with you for the rest of your life the recollections of the work that you have done for one of America's most valued assets, the men and the women and their families of the armed services of the United States.

I want to pick up on a very important point that you made.

We don't want that to happen again, and it is the uncertainty that you must sell to your colleagues.