Jack Reed

Are there efforts to try to move the Chinese government to be more proactive, in terms of with financial pressures, with diplomatic pressures, to at least demonstrate to the North Korean regime that, you know, they're--they can't do these…

The consensus from the panel is that we face some very serious challenges, especially in light of China's increasing military budget and destabilizing activities in the region.

The rise of a military-capable ISIS threatens to erase national boundaries between Iraq and Syria.

The United States is the most networked economy in the world. Our critical infrastructure is accessible through the Internet and is quite exposed and vulnerable.

I echo his call for the end of sequestration.

In Iraq, there's a recognition of the need for Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish factions to overcome their divisions.

It is a truism that nations cannot be deterred by weapons or capabilities that they do not know exist.

One of the most important deterrence strategies is our nuclear triad.

I will not, and I hope we never, coordinate or cooperate with Shiite militias.

This is the way to remain the finest fighting force in the world.

Whatever we do in Afghanistan, for example, I have a feeling we will need more remote vehicles for protection, for exploitation of intelligence, for counterterrorism operations.

I believe this Congress can and must do better.

The need for collective and bipartisan action to end sequestration.

If Congress does not act to end sequestration, I believe our long-term national security interests will be threatened.

This goes to the perception of the world of the United States being both capable and resourced to carry out a strategy to support their allies and oppose their adversaries.

Their enthusiasm to raise their defense budget is probably affected by our lack of will to raise ours.

I need your help with these reforms, which have been frustrated at the same time sequester looms.

Are they aware of the impending sort of budgetary train wreck in the United States?

Taxpayers have trouble comprehending, let alone supporting, the defense budget when they hear about cost overruns.

Sequester is purely the fallout of political gridlock.

In the extreme, the United States could find itself in a position where it must either abandon an important national interest or enter a conflict for which it is not fully prepared.

The threat of sequestration is, as you said, 'a national security crisis of the first order.'

Sequestration is the law, but Congress makes the laws.

I think, on the heels of the seizure of Crimea and the establishment of some sort of an arrangement in eastern Ukraine...

I think it became a strategic plan when Yanukovych upped and left very suddenly last--almost a year ago, 22nd of February.