Tucker Carlson Quotes

U.S. power flows from our unmatched military might, yes. But in a deeper way, it's a product of the dominance of the U.S. economy.

The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.

The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

We won't always have the strongest military.

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

No criticism should be allowed to obscure the truth either at home or abroad that today America is the strongest nation militarily, economically, ideologically in the world.

America must always be the world's paramount military power

Our prosperity provides a foundation for our power. It pays for our military. It underwrites our diplomacy.

The financial solvency and economic soundness of the United States constitute the first requisite of collective security in the free world. That comes before everything else.

We must never allow America to become the second strongest nation I the world.

The United States has the most capable military in the world. We have the best intelligence agencies.

We've got to make sure that our economy is strong at home so that we can project military power overseas.

We have to have the strongest military by far...

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.

The world needs a strong America.

At the present time we are keeping our military expenditures below the…minimum which would in themselves ensure national security. By doing so we are able to increase our expenditures to assist in European recovery.

Modern power depends on money and guns. And we have the most of both.

Wealth governs this country, and wealth uses military violence to control the rest of the world as best it can.

If our economy is strong, that means the military will be strong. If our economy is weak, that weakens our military.

Japan is the only country in the world that does not call its defense organizations a military. That is absurd, when the government is spending 5 trillion yen a year for self-defense.

Poland not only has a capable military but also is strong economically and does not need money being raised for it.