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We do not have a secure border on our southern flank.

We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line to protect our country while we jeopardize their safety by failing to ensure that Defense Department funds are not siphoned off to warlords in Afghanistan.

We won't always have the strongest military.

The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.

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

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.

They don't draft you to sit there and stand on the sideline.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.