Pouring more money into F-35 is like pouring money down a rathole.

Thankfully, there is effort by Representatives Adam Smith and Seth Moulton that would increase the fund to $40,000.

We should never be in a position where we lose a sale like that, let's say, of a Patriot missile system, to a NATO ally against a competitor like the Russians.

Because those organizations have become more powerful and more sophisticated over the last several years, and the policies of the last 4 years, like 'Remain in Mexico,' which is being unwound now by this administration, title 42, which has…

I think we also, as a Congress, need to acknowledge that many of those transnational criminal organizations that are trafficking drugs are in place, in part, because of America's insatiable appetite for those drugs.

The idea that we can build a military large enough and strong enough to dominate China in the modern world is not realistic and is fraught with danger.

They are looking to export an ideology, an authoritarian ideology, and they are also looking to diminish our influence in the world.

I think it is incredibly important that the United States stay present in the Indo-Pacific region.

China is, without question, the largest national security challenge and competitor that we have in the world today.

I believe passionately in representative democracy. I think it works. I think it is the best system of government going.

It will take strategic patience and it will take continued U.S. engagement.