If You Wanted A Safe Job, Go

No One Person Leads Alone - Can't Do It, It's Impossible. It Doesn't Make Any Sense. You Need A Team.

It's Critically Important That We Have Governments To Work With, That We Have Entities To Work With. President Hadi Has Been A Good Partner In That, And We Would Hope That The Next Set Of Leaders That Govern Yemen Will Also Take The Same Approach To Cooperation With The United States.

Peace Comes Through Dealing With People. Peace Doesn't Come At The End Of A Bayonet Or The End Of A Gun.

I'm The First Secretary Of Defense That's Had To Deal With Sequestration. I've Prepared Two Budgets That Deal With Sequestration. And You Bring The Chiefs Together, The Leadership Of This Enterprise Together, To Work Through, How Do We Then Take These Cuts? Where Do We Apply Those Cuts? Readiness Is The First Thing That Suffers.

We Must Prepare For Everything.