Adam Smith

They are in a very comprehensive effort to undermine the very values that our country has fought for in the post-World War II environment.

We have all these grand ideas of what we want. We do not have the money to get there.

We cannot keep piling missions on our service members without ensuring they have all they need to succeed.

We cannot wait until we solve our budget problems to adequately fund our military.

This is a very big bill that covers a lot of different subjects, and just because you are not on the committee doesn't mean it isn't important to you.

I am reasonably confident that North Korea sees the threat of launching a full-on war against South Korea or Japan and the consequences of that.

U.S. presence in that region has never been more important.

As much as I would love on this committee to be able to pull defense out and say we can ignore everything else, we aren't just members of the defense committee.

I don't agree that we can somehow pull defense out of the entire rest of the Federal Government.

The uncertainty that has accompanied the defense budget has made it very, very difficult to operate.

I will not vote for a defense continuing resolution for the rest of fiscal year 2017. It would simply do too much harm.

We should give you a clear budget, every year, clear appropriations to give you the freedom to implement that as is necessary.

The problem, to my mind, continues to be that the Baghdad government is not inclusive enough of the Sunni population.

I personally believe that we need to consider lethal defensive weapons for Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin's goal is to make the world safe for autocratic dictatorships and to undermine the values that we hold dear in this country, which is representative democracy.

More revenue is certainly an option, and I understand campaign promises, but all of the campaign promises... don't add up.

It is politically difficult for the administration given what they campaigned on; but I don't see any way around it.

We need changes, we need a new strategy, we need a new idea of how to approach this.

The world order that existed for, you know, a long time post World War II is stressed and requires some changes.

It is perfectly okay to push our allies that they need to contribute more.

All of the campaign promises that the administration made, they don't add up, so something has got to give.

I think it is, you know, without question true at this point that the world order that existed for, you know, a long time post World War II is stressed and requires some changes.

We were not entering an arms race because we bilaterally have a verifiable inspection regime for the weapons that are deployed.

I believe the New START Treaty remains in the national security interest of the United States as long as Russia complies with its terms.

Anyone who thinks they can control escalation through the use of nuclear weapons is literally playing with fire.