14 Quotes by Steven Kosiak

This estimate has, unfortunately, proven to be overly optimistic.

It's just not that big a chunk of the budget. You've got to go where the money is. There's a lot of rhetoric about spending restraint, but there's been no serious effort to actually address the deficit. Part of the problem is there's no consensus on how to do it.

It's difficult enough to really react to all the data typically included in defense budget. To not even have access to the basic top line over view before you have the opportunity to question the secretary seems problematic. It doesn't have the out years beyond 2007; usually, in fact in all previous blue tops, it had those numbers.

Interesting rhetoric ... but the really big (weapons) modernization were left untouched.

If you want to have intelligent questions (from the press), you get better question if you give people time to prepare.