Where can you save money in each of your services? Where are we spending money that we shouldn't be spending money?

We have a great team together that is really focused on efficiency.

We have to make sure that we spend it wisely, as the chairman said.

This is the largest the defense budget's going to be for probably about the next decade.

I think he perfectly outlines the challenge. There is the tiny little hurdle of actually passing those appropriations bills which seems to always be like we are just around the corner from doing it.

If there is anything that we can do or not do in the NDAA to help you with that acquisition reform process, please let us know.

We face an incredibly complex threat environment, so we are going to want to do like 5 million things at once.

They are undermining the basic tenets of what we stand for, which is political freedom and economic freedom.

The longer the leader of our country gives Russia a pass and keeps saying, well, maybe they are doing bad stuff, maybe they are not, the tougher your job is going to be, the tougher it is going to be to truly hold them accountable.

The basic notion that political freedom is the way to govern a country and to govern the world is being eroded.

We are barely on the playing field at this point.

In confronting this, diplomacy is enormously important, which means that the State Department is enormously important there.