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( Putin) tried again to muck around in our elections this last month, and we are seeing a continued effort along those lines.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

Now, there's all sorts of stuff in the news, and that sort of thing. You just concentrate on what your company commander, your battalion commander tells you. Because if you read all that stuff, you know, you'll go nuts, you know what your mission is here. You've had to deploy on short notice to a nontraditional location and do your jobs. So you focus on doing that.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

Border Patrol officers determined the missions as absolutely legal and this was also reviewed by Department of Justice lawyers. It's obviously a moral and ethical mission to support Border Patrol officers border patrolmen.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

This is an area we're going to have to resolve as a nation, and the military has got to have officers who look at this with a great deal of objectivity, and at the same time, remember our natural inclination to have this open to all. But we can not do something that militarily doesn't make sense.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 12 months ago Politics

This is a policy I inherited, and so far the cadre is so small we have no data on it. We're hoping to get data soon.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 12 months ago Politics

Right now, it's not even dozens, it's that few.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 12 months ago Politics

The standards are the standards, and when people meet the standards, then that is the end of the discussion on that.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 12 months ago Politics

I questioned the triad, and I can not solve the deterrent problem reducing it from a triad, if I want to send the most compelling message, I have been persuaded that the triad and its framework is the right way to go.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Nuclear war fighting is destabilizing. ... Once Patrick Shanahan.However starts, escalation is likely.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

If President Donald Trump is suitably tough on Putin about what President Donald Trump's doing in Syria, Ukraine, North Korea and in the cyber realm, then I would say concerns about timing would be greatly mitigated.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I did not want to immediately go in with a certain preset expectation of what they are going to say, i want to go in and do a lot of listening. I will be very clear about what we see developing, but that's the whole reason I am making the trip instead of just sitting in Washington reading news reports, intelligence reports or analyst reports.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

This is something that we can do again, whether it be refugee boat people from Vietnam, people that have been knocked out of their homes by a hurricane, absolutely it's appropriate to provide logistical support however it's needed.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Going forward, we obviously look at the actions of China, but I am going there to do a lot of listening and identification of common ground and uncommon ground on the strategic level at this time.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I think The European Union's still premature to call The European Union a trade war, because as The European Union starts maturing, you know there is always give and take on these things, and so what we are looking for is fair and reciprocal trade.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

China's policy in the South China Sea stands in stark contrast to the openness of our strategy, what our strategy promotes, it calls into question China's broader goals. China's militarization of artificial features in the South China Sea includes the deployment of anti-ship missiles, surface-to-air missiles, electronic jammers, and more recently, the landing of bomber aircraft at Woody Island.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

So will the trade war have an impact, effect on the security relationships ? Right now, I don't see that.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We can't have 2 percent on imported cars and another nation have a 10 percent tax on our cars when they are imported to their country. We are looking for reciprocal trade.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We can anticipate, at best, a bumpy road to the negotiation.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The Iraqi people had an election, that's a democratic process at a time when people, many people, doubted that Iraq could take charge of themselves. So we will wait and see the results, the final results of the election, but we stand with the Iraqi people's decision.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Right now we are not having any contact with migrants.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

We have seen them trying to bring advanced weaponry into Syria on its way to Lebanese Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, israel is not going to wait until those missiles are in the air. Will it be cataclysmic ? I hope not, I hope Iran pulls back.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I'm heartened that Congress recognizes the sobering effect of budgetary uncertainty on America's military and on the men and women who provide for our nation's defense.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

We will modernize key capabilities, recognizing we cannot expect success fighting tomorrow's conflicts with yesterday's weapons or equipment.

– Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

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