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I’m A United States Senator. I’m Not An Israeli Senator.

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.

Foreign Policy Will Require A Strategic Agility That, Whenever Possible, Gets Ahead Of Problems, Strengthens U.s. Security And Alliances, And Promotes American Interests And Credibility.

I'm Not Saying My Idea Is The One And Only Idea. We Should Have Other Ideas, But The President Has Not Laid Down A Specific Plan As To How He's Going To Get Us To Solvency. I Do That.

The President Of The United States Is The Commander In Chief, And The People Who Work With Him At The National Security Council Are His Arm In Working With The Defense Department. And, Quite Frankly, They Have Responsibility For All Of The Government. We Are One Component Of The Government.