I cannot imagine asking people to risk their lives with us not having done our job.

I am told there are proposed changes to processes created by WSARA, which GAO says have helped improve acquisition outcomes.

The Pentagon's acquisition system remains broken.

You need tenacity to succeed in this job, and you need God to be on your side.

If we do not act to authorize it, I think from a legal and precedential standpoint, it would be somewhat catastrophic.

The problem is not Russia exports gas and oil to Europe. The problem is that they can do so and use that for political purposes.

I am a big supporter of sanctions in the energy space. That is the lever that is being used.

We need to do more on our side.

the key to America's continued success lies in improving our Nation's educational system. Career and technical education, CTE, programs are a critical component to every student's education, creating diverse pathways into further education…

I think actually Chancellor Merkel has been remarkably successful in pulling together the European Union.

If we continue on our current path, i.e., sequester, we risk undermining the central pillars of our all-volunteer force and with it the foundations of international peace and security, of which the United States military has been the most…

The tools that we most often talk about on this committee or in the Foreign Relations Committee, or three of the four--you used the DIME acronym--diplomacy, information, military, economic.

What has your observation been about the Tunisian government's--newly formed, newly elected government's reaction to the terrorist attack at the museum in Tunisia?

I believe that some of the defense trade initiatives that we have with them will help bring us together in a more productive way for many years to come.

Sequester violates every principle of good budgeting that any competent manager in the public or private sector would follow.

The more they are engaged in the global institutions, that can have a pro-stability effect.

What are we doing to counter that?

Shouldn't we be conditions-based? I mean, are we really going to elevate a BCA cap that we voted on in August 2011 before North Korea's cyberattack, before Putin went into the Ukraine, before ISIL was grabbing acres?

the attack in Tunisia was particularly troubling.

You indicated that you thought--in response to earlier questioning--that you thought that ISIL was our most pressing challenge, but Iran was our greatest long-term challenge.

Non-strategic across-the-board cuts can be done with the slide rule.

I want to see a region that will stand up and try to deal with its own problems.

We are facing a dedicated, capable, and very lively information campaign from Russia.

A calendar-based strategy is a bad idea, a conditions-based strategy is a good idea.

This is our fight and we have to show the world that this is our fight.