"I probably had 40 public townhall meetings, you know, where everyone was invited, no holds barred, any issue or topic."
"I am talking about a single-minded, almost exclusive focus on getting that up."
"Preventing veteran suicide is more important than all of those."
"We will never allow Afghanistan again to become the launching pad for attacks against the United States."
"If you prioritize something, it puts that at the top of the list."
"So what Syria is missing right now is more pain. There hasn't been enough pain in the last few years."
"We want to make sure that we minimize any threats to the United States and to our allies."
"Train and equip hasn't really worked to that end so far. It has been an abysmal failure."
"I would link campaign finance reform to military acquisition reform."
"I think that needs to be included in the calculus for reform."
"I sympathize with the fact that you are managing, you know, an all-funds, all-accounts budget organization that controls $156 billion."