Jack Reed

I think that the Russians intend, at this point, to comply with the New START treaty.

Why would the Russians enter into the New START treaty with a verification regime, since none exists today, if their intention is to cheat?

You would be back into the nuclear arms race of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

Isn't that the definition of nuclear instability?

That would require new bombers with nuclear capabilities, correct?

That's why President Reagan said 'trust but verify.' We will be verifying.

We here are looking very carefully at our nuclear enterprise, the laboratories and everything else.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

My sense--and I'll ask you for your sense, General--is that if this treaty is not ratified, the prospects of serious follow-on discussions about nuclear reductions are probably close to zero.

Your judgment from your perspective is that relationship of the treaty would enhance stability and transparency into their operations?

It's important to have certainty in this program and it's important that the workforce understand that the Nation really cares about this program.

If we fail to ratify the New START treaty, what will it do to the whole issue of predictability, stability, transparency?

So this is not some current trendy, chic thing that the President's talking about.

I hope Congress takes the actions that the administration has suggested.

Just for illustration to you as American Senators as to what life and justice are like in Colombia, I would like each member of my cabinet to tell a story that they might have of their own personal kidnapping or the kidnapping of someone…

I want to commend Senator Wicker and my colleagues for raising the issue of Secretary Gates's speech.

We don't want to cut ourselves short on R&D, because we want to get it right.

We want them to succeed. But, if they fail, then you're on to a new delivery system.

I think it's a very sensible program and that we have to follow through.

We have to ensure it's the right path, because we won't get a restart opportunity.

But, it just strikes me that this is a cost to our land forces who are engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, that some of the skills that they would need for non-counterinsurgency are not being exercised a lot.

I think the hearing has indicated that you gentlemen and the regulators have a lot of work to do, and we have got a lot of work to do.

Markets Crash, Close, May Not Open, which might be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

One could suggest that with all these good things happening in Spider and the self-correcting logics, had suddenly the government of Greece announced that it was suspending all of its payments, those things would have been, I think, might…

Based on that, and again, I want your comments, is that you cannot assure us that this problem would have been self-correcting given the market mechanism in place, is that a fair judgment?