Robert Gates actually said...

You could spend $2 trillion, and you will never get to zero threat.

Gates asserts that even massive spending won't eliminate threats.

02/15/2011

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Senator Kaine will recall the reaction when we--when I shuttered Joint Forces Command in Norfolk.

If you find $100 billion--if you find the cut, if you meet the target that I've given you, and then you show me new military capabilities or...

it's a terrible way to budget. I mean, it is a gimmick.

Well, fundamentally, and I'm not kidding, it can be found within the two square miles that encompass the Capitol building and the White Hous...