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...
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 ...
My concern is, we don't have an overriding strategy on the part of the United States in this complex challenge over the next 20 to 30 years.
We want everything that's possible, and a lot of things that aren't possible, in a new system.
we always discover . . . that we [go] too far in cutting
the way the things ought to operate is that if there is a sense on the Hill, a majority view, that the budget needs to be cut to reduce the ...
the cost in treasure and in the blood of our young men and women is always far higher than if we had remained strong and prepared all along
the role of Congress itself.
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...
Senator Kaine will recall the reaction when we--when I shuttered Joint Forces Command in Norfolk.
it's a terrible way to budget. I mean, it is a gimmick.