09/29/2009
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"I think we should be more open-handed. I think we should move more quickly, not because I approve of the people who have run that government for the last 40 years, but because I want to see them usher..."
"I would say that we have zero tolerance for that. We are going to continue our audits and reviews to ensure, with additional training of scheduling practices, that this is not occurring."
"Dividing budget cuts equally between nondefense and defense expenses as in last year's sequester will neither resolve our finances nor assure our security."
"Is the continued drift toward a smaller and smaller Navy troubling? Yes, it is."