John Warner: “I urge you to look at the history of NATO, its success in curtailing the Cold War.”

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.

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

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.

Cuts will be made, I am certain, to the programs, but that is where the wisdom of this committee comes in.