When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.

I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

I have long believed there is a lot of waste in the defense budget.

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for.