Ash Carter

The United States will not ignore attempts to interfere with our democratic processes.

What he's trying to do is exactly what you're calling attention to, namely to end the humanitarian disaster occasioned by the civil war in Syria.

The goal of United States policy in Syria is to end the Syrian war--civil war.

I can't support, and won't support, is anything that moves towards instability.

It absolutely is. That's why we quadrupled the European Reassurance Initiative.

Chairman McCain, I appreciate your comments to our Service Chiefs about the damage the CR can do to our institution.

This, for the eighth fiscal year in a row. That's a deplorable state of affairs.

We need Congress to come together around providing normal, stable, responsible budgets, because the lack of stability represents one of the single biggest strategic risks to our enterprise at DOD.

China has and shares important responsibility for this development and has an important responsibility to reverse it.

The international community, United Nations Security Council and especially the other six-party powers must hold North Korea accountable for this latest act and heighten the pressure on North Korea.

Iran's ballistic missile activities pose a significant threat to the Joint Force and our regional allies and partners, particularly Israel.

That's the aim and the path that Secretary Kerry is on.

There are many things that we work with China on, but there are certain aspects of Chinese behavior that are very disturbing to us.

The United States is reacting. That's what our rebalance is all about.

Our military efforts in Syria are intended to defeat ISIL and regain, for local forces, the territory now being tyrannized by ISIL.

I agree with you, also, about the Assad regime. It's a reason why Assad can't be part of the future of that country.

Indeed, it's exceedingly important that we provide our troops and commanders in the field with all the resources they need to succeed.

I have to say, this approach is deeply flawed and troubling.

I personally would prefer... that we find another place to do it in the United States.

We're not trying to carry out a strategy that is 4 years old. We're trying to carry out our strategy of today.

I agree with everything I said then, including the need to do what we've done this past year.

Undersea dominance is an area of clear American dominance. We want to keep that edge.

We're challenging our NATO partners and working with them to develop what I've called a new playbook for NATO.

I don't believe that the nuclear agreement with Iran constitutes a grand bargain of any kind or will lead to your word 'detente' of any kind, or at least we're not anticipating that.