Adam Smith actually said...

"If you accept for the moment that we need to balance that budget and that we are not going to bring in any new revenue and we can't touch defense, basically what you would have to do is you would have..."

"I did not support the debt ceiling agreement in large part because all of the cuts were lumped on to the non-entitlement portion of the budget."

"I think the points you gentlemen make about the challenges to the Department of Defense budget and the missions we have asked our uniformed military to perform is correct, but there is also a big huge..."

"But all this talk about dollars doesn't translate well into actual impacts on the force and risk to our Nation."