"There is going to be increasing pressure to separate that legal process from the command if there is not visible progress made on protecting our men and women from sexual assault and sexual harassment..."
"No matter how these decisions come out, it is going to be hell."
"Transparency doesn't, you know, buy us necessarily a pain free experience, but I think it makes it work better."
"I hope that your testimony today will highlight areas of greatest risk and help this committee and others in Congress make the right choices."
"The President's budget proposal represents a responsible attempt to forge a grand bargain on the budget."
"Everyone here, I am sure, hopes that a budget deal can be reached, eliminating the damaging effects of sequestration on critical national interests."
"I share in your comments about the outstanding job General Dunford has done and the job that our troops have done in a very, very difficult environment."
"I think the single most important thing right now is to get that Bilateral Security Agreement to eliminate some of that uncertainty as to what exactly our role is going to be post-2014."
"if we do, the Afghan government will never truly be sovereign, will never truly be stable and will never truly have the respect of the Afghan people that it needs to be the sustainable government that..."
"I think it is important that President Karzai understand that Afghanistan actually needs the Bilateral Security Agreement more than we do."
"In my view, the President's approach is fraught with unnecessary risk."
"But Afghanistan is directly connected to our vital national security interests and we must get this right."