When you talk about the active duty forces and defense finance jobs, that's gone very well for Ohio. But when you talk about the Guard, it's not going very well.

We stand to gain up to several thousand more jobs at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service center, ... and the commission listened to our recommendations for Crane and saved half of the jobs that were recommended for transfer elsewhere.

An active duty general is on very thin ice to offer any criticisms, negative comments, about the secretary of defense. Once a general is retired, however, the gloves can come off.

The numbers that we have seen relative to the [Defense Department] jobs coming to the region are eventually going to be dwarfed by the number of contractors they bring with them.

If we have fewer defense jobs and more casino jobs, you've got a more diverse set of jobs.

I can hardly even describe the looks on people's faces when we had to tell them we couldn't give them anything. (McGee) did it for us, for the reasons we voted him in there - to protect us and take care of us.