Political Quotes

There's absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without either resorting to testing our stockpile or pursuing a modernization program.

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.

The policymakers who will follow us . . . will not have the same historical, personal and, indeed, emotional ties to Europe, and may not consider the return on America's investment in Europe's defense worth the cost . . . and that will be…

Every senior leader when you are asked what keeps you awake at night, it is the thought of a terrorist ending up with a weapon of mass destruction, especially nuclear.