I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.

We must prepare for everything.

You can have all the capabilities; if you don't have the quality people, you don't have much.

There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?

I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.

We can't ... take that piece of reality in this business and set that aside and say, well, that doesn't count. And the Republicans on my side understand that the majority is in fact up for grabs next year. So there's not a decision made up here that doesn't have that factor coursing through that current.

We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.