Why should we abide by the Treaty if Russia is unwilling?

Is there an equivalent forum to this panel in Russia or China or another country that would allow the world to see the thinking of the foreign policy elites regarding intermediate nuclear forces?

The NNSA experiment has failed.

Anybody in Congress should hesitate about giving anyone else management advice, because Lord knows this institution is not run properly.

There is something remarkable going on even within the NNSA today.

It worries me, two things that have come out in this hearing. One is the universal tendency of anybody in Congress to blame the administration.

People who complain about a shortage of funding, and then don't allow the Pentagon to prioritize, are people who are not willing to fund our warfighters overseas and at home, should stop complaining.

Will you commit to neither deploy nor procure additional ground-based interceptors (GBIs) until we have a successful flight intercept test?

This must be an election year. I thought that statement, from my good friend, was needlessly alarmist and partisan.

Where would you spend your next dollar?

I hope that the public understands that, you know, we can have as strong a defense as we want to have, but just got to pay for it.

I think it is a serious mistake to just have a political policy of blaming everything on the President.

This budget--you know, we wish it could be better, and it can be better if Congress has the gumption to vote for a better or stronger budget.

We are all Americans, we all want a stronger country, we all want a strong missile defense, and we all should pay for it.

It is almost like magical thinking. So I hope that this year, we will be more realistic.

We could have a larger budget if we had the courage to vote for it.

BRAC is one of the most visible areas in which we in Congress have tied the Pentagon's hands.

I hope this committee will not blame the Pentagon for obeying the law, because Congress made up the budget.

It is important that we work through these issues on a bipartisan basis for the good of the American taxpayer.

It took many years. Why? Because the administration of George W. Bush had a veto threat out on the legislation.

I, right now, have a 17 percent vacancy rate in my office just to stay under the limits that I have been operating under in the last few years.

The American spirit is the can-do, we can fix it attitude, not the blame game, not the bickering game.

I am worried that the net effect of this hearing might be to exaggerate the security difficulties of the website.

the fault is on our side of the dais. So I don't want to put you in a tough spot, so I will go ahead and make some points on my own about the House's and Congress' inability to perform adequately in these trying times.

I admire your work, particularly since you are having to operate in an irrational budget environment.