John Warner: “Let us focus on the word 'transparency.' It means a sharing with the public, with Congress, and others the nature of…”

I think that's a really significant answer since the question of readiness clearly one of the most strategically important issues you have to deal with.

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.

Judging from my own experience, these four resumes constitute an extraordinary body of knowledge needed in these respective positions and needed by our country at a critical time.