Robert Gates: “Added economic pressures on top of the militarization, has real potential of pressuring Iran into complying with…”

Without proper and predictable funding, no amount of reform or clever reorganization will provide America with a military capable of accomplishing the missions it's assigned to.

I think the only thing I would've said is that a lot of this could've been done sooner.

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…

I think part of the problem is that at the end of the Cold War, we were affected by triumphalism or hubris, whatever you want to call it.