Mike Gallagher actually said...

"The idea being that, you know, go back to Rooster's [Lieutenant General Schmidle's] days and every naval officer could tell you everything about the Soviet navy."

"If we do all these things and then outlaw the use of acronyms, the Chinese cannot beat us. I guarantee you."

"I certainly applaud it, because it goes back to the point I made about literacy--what do you need to know for the position you're going to."

"If we're going to try and give someone a highly technical skill set, we should probably just send them to a civilian institution rather than recreating something on our own."