"I cannot help but think that it is because...you did not want to look at it and see just how outlandish those numbers would be versus the money we have."
"I do not think it serves any particular purpose to make promises that nobody has any intention of keeping."
"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."
"U.S. presence in that region has never been more important."
"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."
"I will not vote for a defense continuing resolution for the rest of fiscal year 2017. It would simply do too much harm."
"The uncertainty that has accompanied the defense budget has made it very, very difficult to operate."
"We should give you a clear budget, every year, clear appropriations to give you the freedom to implement that as is necessary."
"I don't agree that we can somehow pull defense out of the entire rest of the Federal Government."
"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."
"The problem, to my mind, continues to be that the Baghdad government is not inclusive enough of the Sunni population."
"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."