"I hope you will do everything you can to reach out to the veterans' groups."
"I had a great deal of heartburn over the way that those agreements were signed here."
"Our military does great things, and I think you and I both feel strongly about that."
"the goal of this administration is going to be more partners and fewer adversaries and to do so in a realistic way that still protects the interests of the United States."
"Jim Webb, the Democratic Senator from Virginia, who is a straight shooter on military stuff, in his new book he talks about how the Republicans have used the military, have politicized national securi..."
"At the same time, Jim Webb said, he should be talking about how he will be the 14th Scotch-Irish president if he's to win this race, as well."
"I think this is one of those very unfortunate situations where completely inadvertently he took the weapon into the Senate yesterday."
"I have never carried a gun in the Capitol complex, and I did not give the weapon to Phillip Thompson. And that's all."
"Democrat Senator Jim Webb of Virginia went on the record to explain how a trusted aide of his named Phillip Thompson ended up getting stopped by police with the senator's loaded pistol at a checkpoint..."
"To our knowledge, this incident was an oversight by the senator's aide."
"The incident is an oversight and says the aide is a former Marine and a trusted employee of the senator."