"I think that is a very important part of it as well."
"I think, you know, that tendency towards this nationalistic drive could potentially undermine the most thing that China should be trying to do, and that is figure out how to feed 1.4 billion people."
"It is our paramount obligation to make sure that we fund that, that we do not have a situation where we give them so many tasks but not enough resources to train for them."
"We are $21 trillion in debt, and counting. The deficit last year was close to $700 billion, and it is going up, not down."
"The immediate short-term impact of that is that we are going to hit the debt ceiling sooner than we had expected to because less revenue is coming into the Treasury."
"And I think we need to understand it in that context and push back comprehensively to try and create a world that is safe for freedom and democracy."
"If we are going to get to where we need to go, we need to hear where can we save money."
"But that is never going to be more important than it is going forward, given the fiscal situation that we are in and given the threat environment that is as described."
"I do not believe that great power rivalry equals endless arms race."
"Deterrence is also your diplomatic stance. Deterrence is dialogue."
"Dialogue is incredibly important to deterrence."
"If we pass this budget that the Republicans want to put before us today, the State Department will continue to be destroyed."