I hope to God we never use it, but make sure it is a deterrent.

What does it mean if Iran and Russia and Assad have won in Syria?

A bigger Navy means that you'll have more ships in more places, which will hopefully make some of our adversaries think twice.

Sequestration's cost us a lot.

If they do not go back to their countries, do you think we have a credible plan to detain them inside of Syria long term?

Is Libya a failed state, fragile state, state on the mend?

If you want to be safe against radical Islam, you need to be in their backyard so they're not in our backyard.

I think stopping an arms race would be a good idea.

The only thing worse than war is losing a war.

I think what we have done is ended the biggest nonproliferation program in the history of the world for no good reason, and I am going to try to fix that.

I think it's the single biggest mistake I've seen since I've been here.

Bottom line, I think you all make a heck of a team for the Army.

It's in our national security interest to make sure we don't do this twice.

To hold the territory, there has to be a holding force, or they'll come back.

So 5,000 people are covering five countries.

The President said that Assad is an animal who killed innocent children by using chlorine gas.

The Obama administration decided to abandoned construction of the MOX program. Do you consider that a withdrawal of that agreement?

To the American people, you may be tired of fighting these people, but they're not tired of fighting you.

Do we have a strategy to prevent that?

If the Iraqis were to ask us to stay, it would be my opinion that that would be a good decision for us.

It does matter because the groups that are in that area, ISIS, JNIM [Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin], and the like--some of these have aspirations to conduct things regionally, as well as into Europe and into our Homeland.

Sustaining this weapon technology and the industrial base that produces it is of critical importance to US national security.

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