John Warner

I thank the chair. Days long past.

If you see and learn from the various Cabinet officers that there's a deficiency in the law, I would hope that you would ask the President to promptly send to Congress such legislative requirements as may be needed to make certain all…

Is there not an element of risk now that is somewhat greater for our forces operating with the Iraqis?

I hope that these management burdens--you'll handle it, but, at the same time, keep your skills up, and a little hands-on medicine, I think, is good for the heart and the soul, and to show the troops that you still know how to do it.

In no way do I suggest anything but the highest regard for the General, but this Admiral is the top boss in that region.

There are limits to human endurance.

I look back on the days when we were dealing in the Cold War and we always had the feeling that the senior military and the Soviet Union at that time were individuals that would carefully think through all options for initiating certain…

I think it's essential that we continue to work with the American public so that they better understand what are our goals.

how proud some of these foreign officers are to step up and say: I am a product of America's IMET educational system.

Sixty percent of the known oil reserves--I'm not talking just about Iraq--are in that region.

I would hope that you'd feel free--and, really, I ask that you come back before the committee, at least inform the staff, in about 90 days--do you have enough resources to operate that office as you see appropriate?

There's been some modest action by the Maliki Government, but it is not in any way measurable as it relates to the goals set out in January of this year when the President announced the surge policy.

I don't know whether you had the opportunity, Mr. Vickers, to read in the New York Times today an article by Michael Gordon.

I think the greatest asset we have today is the All-Volunteer Force.

I think we're progressing. Congress has now required the President to come back up here by July 15 and give us a current assessment, not wait until September.

The Senate believes a failed state in Iraq would present a threat to regional and world peace...

I would think that primary responsibility for the enforcement of those benchmarks should be primarily with the Secretary of State and her ambassadors.

Mr. President, you're correct, full force, because there we're engaged with al Qaeda, the very organization that precipitated the problems that we're experiencing in that region today.

only a third of Baghdad has really been subjected to the January 10 doctrine of the President.

Therein is what this hearing is all about, to hopefully assure this committee that you're going to be an independent individual;

This event is being perceived as a major setback for international space cooperation which over the years has yielded enormous benefit to the world in the commercial and scientific arenas.

So that concept continues to this day.

I think we all agree that the criticality of the Guard and Reserve at this time as a consequence of their very courageous and forthcoming contribution to procuring the goals both in Iraq and Afghanistan have left it in some rather unusual…

There is work to be done.

I think some of these citizens of Iraq will turn on a dime and 1 day they're your friend and the next day they're your enemy.