"It's a friendship, but it needs an awful lot of work."
"I think it is important. Many of us were very pleased when we did the defense appropriations bill to carry forward through year end to replace the CR."
"It is important to acknowledge there was an alternative."
"I agree with what Senator Sessions said earlier. It was a horrible idea."
"To make a sixth of the budget, defense, take 50 percent of the cuts, that was foolish."
"If they believe that the only outcome of this is likely going to be whether they survive or whether they are purged as that community, then this will be a fight to death whether we offer lethal aid or..."
"My concern about Syria right now is this, that it looks more and more sectarian, that Assad is an Alawite and with a military that is--about 70 percent of the military leadership is Alawite."
"Efforts that we would undertake to assure that the character of the opposition included members of the Alawite minority so that Alawites would not fear an ethnic purge in the aftermath of a conflict, ..."
"Can we trust them? Will the weapons end up in the wrong place?"
"the challenges of the future require flexible force more than a fixed force."
"I think we have to be consistent in our message."
"If we don't find that solution that is assumed in the budget that the President has submitted, what will be the long-term effect on the costs and scheduling on the shipbuilding side?"