Lawrence Korb Quotes

Controlling 77 percent of the global arms market yields innumerable benefits for the United States: it decreases the costs of equipping American forces, emboldens U. S. Allies to stand up to common enemies, and facilitates joint operations.

Taxpayers are burdened with so-called defense spending that is used not for defense, but to create or hold jobs in someone's congressional district, or to continue to pile up profits for an arms manufacturer.

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

We disarm ourselves by making weapons so expensive.

The French don't care where they send arms as long as they get some money.

Because the United States now leads the world in arms deliveries by such a wide margin, Washington has little credibility when it chides other governments for transferring weapons to U. S. enemies.

It's expensive to keep Communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, and I can't reduce it by exporting tomatoes or toilet paper. We should be making dollars any way we can. And we should be exporting arms any way and every way, openly and secretly, legally or by smuggling-I don't care how.

Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts, they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts everywhere else in the budget.

When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.

An immediate prohibition of the exportation of arms and ammunition is also submitted to your determination.

Our guns are not called upon to hurl huge projectiles each one of which costs as much as the construction of a happy home.

We must have a defense industry, we cannot depend on other countries for our defense. A defense industry in a small country like ours has to export to stay alive.

The trading of arms is disgusting and contributes to horrors around the world.

If I were President I would veto arms sales to countries we damn well know our going to shoot our ass the minute our backs are turned.

The United States is the preeminent arms pusher worldwide.

The defense budget has become a jobs program.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

I don't think we should be in the business of proliferating arms sales just to protect our industrial base.

We can always find money for what the military wants.

The good news is the Pentagon is going to make some significant budget cuts. The bad news is: They want to kill a plane that's built in your district.

We send them the instruments [arms] and they pull the trigger.

There is no better constraint on the leader of a developing country than telling him that he has to pay cash for his weapons.

No nation, no matter how destitute, likes to be told how much military "security" to buy.

We can cut the Defense Department budget because we’ve got bombs running out of our ears.

The manufacture of arms within the United States still invites the attention of the National Legislature. At a considerable expense to the public this manufacture has been brought to such a state of maturity as, with continued encouragement, will supersede the necessity of future importations from foreign countries.