"I just have to say, I could not disagree more."
"We didn't take an oath to the sequester."
"But, separate from budgets, strategically, I gather there is no dispute within the DOD, the Navy family, the White House, in terms of the 11-carrier strategy, which is statutory but also a strategy th..."
"There's a lot of deferred maintenance. I look at it as deferred maintenance issues, the kind you talk about."
"So the surprise was the timing rather than that they actually took this step."
"I just ask these questions to suggest, I think, most would say China is our 'principal competitor' in the next century."
"The 11-carrier Navy is a statutory requirement."
"We should applaud the work of the 7th Fleet in assisting in trying to find the Air Malaysia flight."
"There was not any dialogue among the region or among the neighbors."
"I do not think a conflict or a crisis with China is inevitable. I do not think it is."
"I think, as I was hearing your testimony, you were indicating that China is pretty rapidly chewing away any dominance that we might have in the region."