"We need allies. We need friends."
"One of the biggest things China is doing is they are spending a ton of money all across the world to try to curry favor with countries and also build their own economic might."
"We are pulling back again. This budget that is being proposed guts development."
"The Justice Department has played an enormous role in stopping terrorist attacks and also, you know, bringing to justice those who have committed them."
"So to sit here and say, you know, we are going to stand up, spend all this money on defense because it would just be wrong to prioritize other things is patently absurd and insulting."
"You have got to agree, there are other things that are important than keeping the peace."
"We cannot do new starts, we cannot get into cyber protection, the very thing you hold dear, because we do not have the ability to do so under continuing resolutions, 9 out of the last 10 years."
"I guess, I--foremost is okay. Only, exclusively, while ignoring everything else, not okay."
"This is enormously important. There are a lot of concerns at the Pentagon."
"I too want to specifically thank Mr. Conaway for his great leadership on this issue."
"I think the taxpayers deserve at least the same level of confidence as a shareholder in the use of their money."
"To say that it is not worth doing is like saying, hey, we have screwed it up so bad for so long..."