"I am confident that those objectives, which GEN Allen has outlined in his campaign strategy for SOF, can be accomplished even in the face of GPF reductions."
"We need to treat it as a national security imperative."
"We must be careful not to compromise homeland missile defense for the sake of theater missile defense or budget shortfalls."
"Securing our hemisphere is absolutely critical to our national security."
"I want to thank General Jacoby and the entire NORTHCOM command for their work in building a relationship with Mexico to try to find ways to help them in any way we can to, you know, get back control o..."
"I am also very focused on the cyber-security challenge."
"I appreciate your leadership, General Fraser, in trying to confront that."
"I agree with the chairman in his assessment both of what those threats are and how important they are to our national security."
"I laud the heroic efforts of Mexican security service personnel and public officials, who--make no mistake--are risking their lives and the lives of their families in a war against these brutal crimin..."
"With the looming threat of sequestration, we must also understand the consequences of such severe cuts on the effectiveness of your commands."
"this New Defense Strategic guidance that President Obama has laid out looks like it sort of just pulled out of thin air"
"I am deeply concerned that we are not taking, for example, account of the threat the Chinese pose to the country"