Adam Smith actually said...

"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."

"the proposed cuts in the defense budget are a big risk, particularly if we do not make the cuts necessary to prevent sequestration."