I'm confident in everything that's provided to me by the department and the members of our armed forces. To your constituent who is concerned about the costs of this, I would point out to him or her the human costs of not doing anything in this area. I would indicate to him that to be exact at the beginning of a mission, to be exact on what a mission will cost, is always challenging. We have to be able to adapt. We'll go forward, and you can tell him that we will report it in the usual way.
On November 25th, 2014. See this statement in context.