Edward C. Aldridge Quotes

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

The defense budget has become a jobs program.

We can always find money for what the military wants.

Today, we are not likely to need to organize local militias for our defense now we have something called the Pentagon.

Each proposed B-2 stealth bomber costs three times more than it would if every part of the plane were made from solid gold. The cost is $2.3 billion each.

Michigan has a lot at stake in the defense industry, and the defense industry has a lot at stake in Michigan.

Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

The purchase of unnecessary military hardware is undoubtedly the most wasteful element in American government.

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.

When the greatest part of the [U.S.] budget pays for our defense and the livelihood of retirees, it is pointless to pretend that public spending is an embarrassment consisting only of welfare and waste.

There is so much crap [waste] going on over there [the Pentagon], I could run the Navy Department on the cost-of-living increases alone.

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the Civil Servant. It doesn't work and it can't be fired.

Americans will cheerfully forgo the luxury of new automobiles in order to assure adequate mechanized equipment for defense.

Party conferences don't purchase fighter jets.

The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced.

History is rife with stories of directors who got so obsessed that their films went massively over budget - out of control.

I have long believed there is a lot of waste in the defense budget.

When the F-16 first was rolled out, there were many problems in the development. There were cost issues, and it ended up being one of the best planes the military has ever seen and kept this country protected and kept many jobs in the North Texas area.

If we have political forces in the Bundestag, and in parts of the coalition, who... say they want to spend money on pensions, not weapons. Then I say, be honest and say you don't want a German army.

Of all government expenditures, defense spending is the... most stimulative to the economy.

I am confident that the Defense Department understands JSTARS is a major priority for Congress and will complete the process of updating the JSTARS fleet in a timely manner.

If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.

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.