"on the Korean Peninsula, we are at a high-water mark since the cessation of conflict during the Korean war."
"You have served your country incredibly well, do an outstanding job, and we have always had a very open dialogue."
"no greater authority on that subject than current chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said exactly that."
"the Democratic-controlled House is not going to pass a budget that creates $174 billion OCO and guts every other aspect of funding."
"Artificially sticking to those budget caps has almost nothing to do with fiscal responsibility."
"if you are going to cut the State Department, you better give me more ammunition."
"the comment that funding a border wall out of the Department of Defense is also unbelievably irresponsible."
"this committee, and I know there has been bipartisan expression to this, is unalterably opposed to taking money out of DOD to fund the border wall."
"we need the Pentagon to start spending the money more wisely than it has been spending it."
"My bottom line is we need to keep making progress. We can't slide backwards."
"I share the concerns about other parts of the budget."
"I think to the extent that we rely on that political talking point it undercuts the fact that this all happened because of the battle over the budget."