I said ‘look guys and gals, we need you to do more. You know we're doing more. We're trying to accelerate what is the certain defeat of ISIL. You've got to get in the game and do more. Because we need to win as fast as we can,’. Defense Secretary Ash Carter More Quotes by Defense Secretary Ash Carter More Quotes From Defense Secretary Ash Carter We have options, we're not at that point. We're at the point of trying to get the parties back to the table. Defense Secretary Ash Carter us I'm not going to tell you what the United States is prepared to do. As the president said, we have options. Defense Secretary Ash Carter industrials It's too low, and if Europe wants to be a force in the world it needs to be more than a moral and political and economic force, which Europe is because it shares many of our values and demonstrates them around the world. But it has to have the military power that goes with that as well. Defense Secretary Ash Carter latest-headlines Now they're beginning to wake up, so it's not like they( the Europeans) don't have plenty to do. Defense Secretary Ash Carter latest-headlines They're not doing enough. Defense Secretary Ash Carter latest-headlines They've got the money to do this. Defense Secretary Ash Carter latest-headlines Sequestration is a sudden and arbitrary cut in the defense budget that we can't predict. Defense Secretary Ash Carter latest-headlines We also see great opportunities: Among them, to shift the great weight of the Department of Defense, both intellectual and physical, that has been devoted to Iraq and Afghanistan, to the Asia-Pacific region, where America will continue to play its seven-decade-old pivotal stabilizing role into the future. Defense Secretary Ash Carter us The information that was posted by ISIL was information taken from social websites and publicly available. It wasn’t stolen from any DoD (Defense Department) websites or any confidential databases. Defense Secretary Ash Carter politics The time for squeezing, squeezing, squeezing is over, we're going to need to look at our fundamental defense strategy and our national security strategy and ask ourselves difficult questions about what we can't do or can't do to the extent this country has become accustomed. Defense Secretary Ash Carter politics The first pillar of our future force must be ensuring that we maintain, and extend, our technological edge over any potential adversary. Defense Secretary Ash Carter us-news The great tragedy is that this corrosive damage to our national security is not the result of objective factors, logic or reason. Defense Secretary Ash Carter us-news