Political Quotes

My staff and I have learned that it was nearly impossible to get accurate information and answers to questions such as, 'How much money did you spend?' and, 'How many people do you have?'

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 expanded military capabilities that are actually tooth, I'll give you the money back to invest in…

We want everything that's possible, and a lot of things that aren't possible, in a new system.

I soon learned that the only way I could get significant new or additional equipment to commanders in the field in weeks or months, not years, was to take control of the problem myself through special task forces and ad hoc processes.