Adam Smith actually said...

"I hope the witnesses here today and at future hearings can help us think through our national security strategy and potential changes."

"I think it is one of the most important challenges that we face on the Armed Services Committee and certainly in our national security Department of Defense strategy, to figure out how we deal with th..."

"if we feel very, very strongly that those proposed cuts are going to do irreparable harm to our national security strategy, that they should not be made, then we also have an obligation to come up wit..."

"I look forward to this discussion. I think it is the most important thing we are doing right now because it will form our national security policy in the years and decades to follow."