Remarks at the Center for Defense Information Dinner

"“Almost every week, somebody calls me up … and says, ‘What would you do now?’ There’s a rule that if you find yourself in hole, stop digging. The first thing I would say is we need to stop digging. We have dug this hole so deep now that you see many serious people, Jack Murtha, General Odom, and others, beginning to say it’s time to just pull out, cut your losses. I’m not of that camp. Not yet. But I certainly think we’ve come pretty close to that.” "