I think his concept is that, let's identify our critical infrastructure and allow the industries in question, like the utilities, to come up with best business practices within their industry and submit their proposal to a collaborative…

Did you ever talk to the President of the United States?

We would like to have a more mature China as part of the international community.

When the Secretary of Defense turned to you and said, 'there's really nothing we can do within 24 hours to help these people,' what was his reaction?

So basically my view is we never honored the modernization commitment in terms of funding, and along comes sequestration.

I just do not want to destroy the military in the process.

From our own national security interests, a nuclear-armed North Korea sharing technology with terrorist groups is a real concern; do you agree with that?

I agree, and also other, non-Sunni Arab states in the general region.

why isn't an attack on critical infrastructure in this nation, a cyber attack by a government like China or Russia, why is that not considered an act of war?

Their behavior is not only provocative, it's obscene. They're stealing American intellectual property.

We feel like China can bring it to a stop. We feel like they have not chosen to do so.

North Korea's a client state of China and they could stop this if they chose to in my view.

I very much support sanctions and a diplomatic resolution to the Iranian problem.

I hope we will take that to heart.

I think we have to look at the world we live in when we make these decisions about numbers and capabilities.

If Congress doesn't get involved, I think we will regret the day.

I think we are coming out of a period where the answer was no.

At least one other nation has told me they would do that.

It would be the worst thing for China to face the prospect of additional nations in the area with nuclear weapons.

Well, I don't know if they do or not. We have done everything we can--the three of us--to tell them what is coming our way. All I can say is that every general and admiral who has told us the same thing, I respect what they are telling us…

I thank the Senator from New Hampshire who authored this amendment which Senator McCain and I support. She spent a lot of time and effort trying to fix sequestration in the first year and trying to look at programs that are not as…

He's the commander-in-chief. On his watch, we're going to begin to unravel the finest military in the history of the world at a time we need it most.

Why aren't we prosecuting people who fail a background check and there are 15 questions there. They're not hard to understand if you're filling out the form. So I'm a bit frustrated that we'd say one thing, how important it is, but in the…

if you have 76,000 people fail a background check and only 13 people plead guilty, I am not so sure we are sending the right signal to our citizens at large that we are really serious about you trying to get a gun illegally.

Well, we will never know what he was up to because it ended in a way where the family was safe, and we all agree that no one who is mentally unstable or criminal should have one bullet with any gun.