Adam Smith actually said...

"Thanks, Secretary Wilson, for what will likely be her last hearing before the House Armed Services Committee."

"It is brutal and difficult, and it is just as brutal and difficult for the non-defense discretionary budget to try and do that as well."

"There has to be--you know, it is like when the cords get all bundled up, there has got to be some place to start to sort of pull it apart and start working."

"This committee does not accept that."