12 Quotes by Winslow Wheeler

My guess is that you will never hear a peep about this as they debate the bill, ... Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security.

If it's beyond the next election cycle, we'll worry about it next year after we get ourselves elected.

He has to convince me about this every time it comes up.

When it comes to budget decisions that would help us fight the long war, they either change nothing or walk in the wrong direction.

We don't know if the operational tempo is going to go up, down, or stay the same. We don't know what the number will be or what the direction of the trend will be.

There is a big chasm between rhetoric and the budget process.

There are all kinds of ways to address it, but it's hard to eliminate. The problem is fundamental to the nature of the insurgency.

Earmarks undergo virtually no review, making it impossible to distinguish between truly meritorious projects and those that are pure pork.

The ones that pop up at the last minute at conference are rare.