"I can't say that I look forward to the testimony. I don't. It is not going to be pleasant."
"if we want to say to the Defense Department, you know, tell us what you need to do and then we will get you the money, then we need to make choices in other parts of the budget, both on revenue and on..."
"the choices we have made in the last decade, you know, have been to, you know, dramatically cut taxes and dramatically increase spending."
"if you really want to argue for more money for it, then you have to argue for less someplace else or, as I have advocated, for more revenue."
"what the Budget Control Act did is it put everything on the discretionary budget, you know, and it put all of the cuts, you know, not just on defense but on transportation, infrastructure, research."
"We need to end sequestration."
"If you have to take these $52-billion cuts every year going outward, no flexibility in the world is really going to fundamentally change the dire scenarios."
"You don't have the $52 billion that Representative Franks made you think you had."
"The single biggest takeaway from Strategic Choices Management Review is that Congress, by allowing sequestration to continue, is abdicating its constitutional responsibility to responsibly fund the mi..."
"Those who refuse to end sequestration have the responsibility of proposing a balanced package of revenue increases and spending cuts that do not harm our national security."
"How much military risk are you willing to take to preserve your tax cut?"
"Obviously, the Asia-Pacific region is of critical importance to the United States and growing importance economically, politically, a number of different countries that we have complex relationships t..."