"We don't collect enough revenue to cover our expenditures."
"Large, immediate cuts to the defense budget would have substantially negative impacts to the ability of the U.S. military."
"I worry, just as Mr. Bartlett does, about my children and my grandchild right now and what they are going to wind up being the benefactors of that we do."
"We have to begin to confront that inconsistency if we, as policymakers, are going to have the political space to make the choices that need to be made."
"The U.S. military is the modern era's greatest champion of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
"It is my belief that we are going to have to fix this problem from both ends--spending will have to come down, and we're going to have to fix the revenue problem."
"I share the view that large, immediate cuts to the defense budget would have substantially negative impacts to the ability of the U.S. military to carry out those missions we assign them."
"I associate myself with the chairman's remarks. I think he perfectly summed up the challenges the two of you face."
"I do want to give special recognition to Admiral Olson since he is from Tacoma."
"General Mattis, you have the greatest responsibility of the commanders right now in a very, very complicated part of the world."
"And this is something that I think DOD-wide and intelligence-community-wide we have to be engaged in."
"If you could just update us a little bit, Admiral, you know, send something to us on the record about what you have been doing with nonlethal uses of force."