"I am opposed to sequestration. One of the first votes I casted when I arrived here was to not let sequestration go into effect in February 2013."
"If we battle hard to get sequester relief, we want that commitment to be an unequivocal one."
"Any reduction of the carrier force from 11 to 10 would not just be a matter of a budget line item, but it would also require a change in the statutory language."
"I think it is important for folks to know that DOD is not coming here and saying, 'give us relief from the entirety of sequester.'"
"It is also a recruiting pool, though, that has a lot of other people interested in that talent. It is a very competitive one."
"I feel kind of isolated out on a wing. I hope I get out of the penalty box sometime."
"I hope we can dig into the years 2016 and out and have a budget that's driven by our strategy rather than to continue to have to try to adjust, carve, and cut our strategy to fit a budget that in my v..."
"I do not want to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, Mr. Chairman."
"The national security challenges we have, they're the most--debt that we can control doesn't match up to an Iranian nuclear threat."
"We've not had a war that's been 13 years of continuous warfare before."
"It is my hope that working on the budget, working through the National Defense Authorization Act, that we'll be able to do in fiscal year 2016 and forward what we did in fiscal years 2014 and 2015."