Tim Kaine

The United States will stand with Europe and stand with Ukraine as they proceed down that road.

I wish you the best as we move forward. And it is good to be about this work.

If confirmed, my intention would be to partner as closely as possible with our European partners, who are forcefully engaged on these issues.

I am a huge fan of this program.

We need to do a better job networking our alliances.

We do not have a position on these territorial claims, but we need to be crystal clear and consistent that we will oppose efforts at coercion against partners and allies.

The bottom line is Prime Minister Abe in Japan has publicly committed to implementing the Futenma replacement plan in Okinawa.

The public-private partnership approach, the data I see suggests now, you know, foreign aid dollars, if you look at a public-private, 10 to 15 percent is public, and 80 to 85 percent is private.

I applauded because I love the big goals, and I think we are sent here to do big things.

A goal like that of extreme poverty eradication in two decades is one that has to be done in partnership.

I lived in Honduras in 1980 and 1981 when it was a military dictatorship.

I would hope all stakeholders could sit down and agree on a reasonable way forward.

I have been underwhelmed at the amount of savings that results from all the drama.

I completely agree, sequester is a bad idea. There is a better way...

Congress has not said you cannot recommend to us things that should be closed.

The process is big, complicated, and costly, and creates a lot of anxiety, but the savings at the end of the day, frankly, are not all that great.

If any of those contingencies or, God forbid, more than one, were to come to pass, there would be a pretty immediate need for an awful lot of Air Force activity.

The Accountability Review Board, in the aftermath of Benghazi, suggested not only that the Marines bulk up, but that the foreign affairs security training also bulk up, on the State Department side.

I think we need to say we're protecting the warfighter, and we are, if you define it pretty narrowly.

I thank you, General Campbell, for all of the great work that the Army is doing, along with all of the other branches, in this regard.

A real issue to the committee and to Congress is, we have pledged to rebalance to the Pacific, in line with the Defense Strategic Guidance, and we think that that--the rebalance to the Pacific will now be delayed beyond 2017, unless we get…

How much of the readiness in each of your divisions is related to the issue of the retrograding of equipment back from Afghanistan and then refurbishing and reusing that equipment?

That's what keeps me up at night.

To the extent that we're delayed getting it back or the dollars for the investments are not there or it's delayed--you're----

We should solve the problem now, before we reach a time when our ships, aircraft, troops, and equipment can no longer train or deploy.