Ron Johnson

What is unfortunate is, it seems like nobody is really paying attention to this.

The 30-year projected deficit is $103 trillion.

I think that was a tremendous diminishment of a potential message being sent to other countries we were working on.

It is in political disarray, and there are thousands of militias.

Should we be encouraging European allies to step up to the plate?

Who is going to be the countervailing force to, right now, Haftar and Egypt and UAE and Russia?

Somebody is going to have to control the ground militarily.

So with that level of fragmentation, I mean, what role has diplomacy?

If you go into supporting Haftar wholeheartedly, you will have a civil war.

Having the U.S. on board signaling that it supports a political, as well as a military solution is extremely important.

The U.S. was very hesitant to reinsert following the second withdrawal personnel into Libya, worried about the paralysis that might cause at home.

We have seen the enemy, and it is us.

America's insatiable demand for drugs, coupled with smugglers' insatiable demand for profits, is one root cause, perhaps the root cause, preventing the achievement of a secure border.

I am not interested in doing that. Most Americans are not interested in doing that.

If we would just take half of the money that we are talking about spending for a wall, we could fund the 'Alliance for Prosperity' for the next two decades.

Their lives are miserable. Their lives are unsafe. There are conditions of misery.

When I was in Israel, talking to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he told me that there are three problems with fencing: tunnels, tunnels, and tunnels.

I just do not want you to waste my money.

I agree 100 percent that the authority is there. And I think a debate on an AUMF, on the other hand, is timely and especially with a new administration laying out a strategy.

We have to change that attitude--into technical colleges, into colleges. We have to realign those goals.

We pay people not to work; and, two, we tell all our kids they've got to get a four-year degree.

I want to quickly go to Colonel Cartney--I got involved in education because the President of our Catholic school system had been the President of Fox Valley Technical College--really kind of world-renowned, because he brought the TQM…

All work has value, and you have to build things.

This does not require a Federal Government solution. This can be done on the ground.

We have to stop denigrating the trades.