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.

Where would you spend your next dollar?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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