"As I like to put it, they want to make the world safe for kleptocratic autocracy."
"Thank you, and I want to welcome our witnesses, members of the audience, members of the committee."
"Please provide an accounting of all expenses incurred by the Department of Defense--specified by appropriation, budget activity, and sub-activity group--for all operations and support for DOD and othe..."
"I want to start by saying it has been a great pleasure working with Chairman Thornberry for--well, for as long as we have been in Congress."
"At the end of the day my priority for the committee are two things: number one, to maintain the bipartisan tradition of this committee."
"I want to do everything we can to make sure we don't slip backwards on the progress that we have started to make in rebuilding and repairing the military."
"I think the most important part of your statement was at the end there, is that we do not have a strategy to counter what is happening."
"Our advantage in a number of different areas has been eroding."
"What has not happened on our end is we have not responded to that."
"I think what the Senate added to the defense bill is a great opportunity for us to update that process to help protect our technologies through the CFIUS process."
"Even in this day and age, we still have not figured out how to put together a cyber policy to protect our assets."
"We do not have an industrial policy."