49 Quotes by Loren Thompson

Rumsfeld was a buffer between the president and public criticism and staying behind him was a sign of Bush's strength. Now Rumsfeld is becoming the cause of the criticism and standing behind him could be interpreted as a sign of weakness.

A prolonged shut down of spare parts production potentially endangers Army readiness. There's no way Sikorsky can maintain a high rate of production without the Teamsters on the line.

The British are going to spend billions on this, and they're concerned they won't really understand the technology of what they're buying. They don't want to be treated like a Third World arms dealer. They're saying, ' If you can't trust us, how can we trust you?

This is an interesting twist on an argument that the Air Force has been pursuing for some time on the need to cut its purchases of Joint Strike Fighters. The Air Force has settled on a number of about 1,100.

This base closure is the roar that moused, ... It started out being very ambitious, but ended up being modest.

They're using them at a very rapid pace in Iraq and Afghanistan.

They're (the Emirates) not going to retaliate because they need us. Who is going to protect that little outpost of modernity on the Arabian Peninsula if it isn't us?

Although they may not have won the original competition in an entirely proper manner, they've got a pretty strong track record in developing these kinds of weapons.

This is very good news for Boeing at a time when its space operations seemed to be faltering.