Robert Gates: “We need additional personnel at the battalion and company levels with the appropriate expertise and technical equipment…”

This is a Department that principally plans for war. It is not organized to wage war, and that is what I am trying to fix.

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

The President does not like having countervailing opinions, he does not like being disagreed with.

I'm always hesitant to get Congress involved in a problem, because you usually end up with a solution you don't like. But the problem that the conferences, the athletic conferences, are facing now, they're all multi-state conferences. And…