Joe Manchin

I am concerned that if we continue to target our civilian workforce for cuts, young people may no longer see public service as a viable career--a devastating result.

First and foremost, we must ensure that our troops in Afghanistan have what they need to carry out their mission.

How are you each encouraging your partner nations to work together and share intelligence to combat the drug trade?

The United States does not have a greater ally in the Middle East than Israel.

I have long said that the National Guard presents the best value for the taxpayer's dollar.

Today, I can announce that the United States will make a new commitment to the security of our NATO partners by reinvigorating our contribution to the NATO Response Force that we value so much.

For Europe, the U.S. defense strategy reaffirms the lasting strategic importance of the transatlantic partnership with the United States.

I do not want a single soldier to die trying to move equipment out of Afghanistan, but--at the same time--this seems like a tremendous waste of resources at a time of fiscal crisis in this country.

I worry that the country is setting a dangerous precedent by entering into these sorts of projects, where the recipient nation does not have the resources to maintain the project--dooming it to ultimate failure until the United States…

I'm saying all the other things, whether it be schools or whether it be the water supplies and things of that sort, when I was there that we were afraid or they were afraid to put our name on and give us credit, the U.S. Government, for…

I am a strong supporter of the work done at this facility.

That's what I think we as Americans are upset about, the money we're putting into an infrastructure which they are incapable of maintaining.

I find it troubling that the military is losing many of its talented people to private contractors.

Isn't it time... that we look at the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and decide that we need to have something other than the arbitrary decision of one general?

I agree that we're going to have to be fighting the war on terror for many generations to come.

I know there's been a lot going back and forth--if you'd have had the flexibility... would you have been able to deploy the Harry S. Truman on time?

I question now whether that unit that that man returns to, whether there's any chance a woman who is sexually assaulted in that unit would ever say a word, because what that general just said is that jury's decision didn't matter.

I worry that they are using negotiations to delay and I hope the administration will make sure that they are not able to use those negotiations to further their aims at getting nuclear weapons capability.

What can we provide SOCOM to enhance and maintain capabilities, in both the Active and Reserve components?

We voted on a resolution saying that containment is not the policy of the United States of America.

I would simply say that basically when somebody else's money is at risk, it seems like we have not learned from our past mistakes.

In the 1940s, we were able to help the veterans returning from the war.

We thought you had to have a little skin in the game. You should be able to afford what you were buying.

We are getting penalized for doing the right thing.

You are basically saying for all the mistakes that we have made in the past, now we have to go back and really raid the private market.