"I appreciate that the idea of having informed divergent views is very vital to how our decision processes work."
"We're burning up a lot of money, and we're not getting a lot of product right now."
"Do any of you see this as leadership failures in the Navy?"
"A lot has been said today about unity of command and I want to just drill down if I could."
"I think your sensible and informed views have really helped calm down a lot of the debate here in this country."
"We need to see more discipline and more leadership and a clearer articulation of the priorities of where this money is going and why."
"You have written in the past, that you believe that there should be a residual force in Iraq of approximately 60,000 American military, do you still believe that?"
"We have a stewardship to those people, that's quite a bit different than the way we address the career force."
"We're entering a period where DOD, and I think the people at this table understand it--other people in DOD have to realize that these budgets are going to get a lot tighter, these programs are going t..."
"Stability is one issue. But being mandatorily committed to coming to the defense of a country...is very troublesome."
"If you cannot clearly articulate when the commitment will be ended, then we tend to move sort of in an ad hoc way."