John Warner: “For the first time you failed to meet your recruiting levels.”

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.

It is a moving experience for me to reenter this room. I served on this committee for 30 years.

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.

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.