Donald Trump Quotes

Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.

NATO members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations.

The bottom line is, I've got a wife and three kids. I've got bills I have to pay.

I'm a big fan of NATO. But they have to pay up.

I pay the bills, I pay for everything.

Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.

I don't act because I love doing it, I act because it's my job. At the end of the year, I gotta pay my taxes, bills, doctors, insurance, car insurance, the occasional vacation. It's a wonderful job. The upside is that it is exciting and different... the downside is that it is an extremely insecure job.

I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills.

Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.

For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability.

But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.

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

You know, we've got to be responsible about our debt. We don't want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not be able to pay its bills, either to our soldiers who are fighting or to Social Security recipients.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Homeland Security money ought not to be allocated on a pork barrel basis.

The military always asks for more [appropriations] than it gets.

It's a bit embarrassing to be a deadbeat .... The United States should not be a deadbeat.

In the military budget regionalism overcomes partiotism.

What chiefly governs the military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.

The Pentagon says that they are too big to be audited. That’s an insult. They spend $700 billion a year. They need to be audited.

If we don’t take defense spending seriously, it undermines our credibility on other spending issues

The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats.

We all have to pay our bills. We all have to pay our taxes. Straight up.

If we don't get a hold of what we owe Americans who are providing services to our veterans, then the entire system collapses.

I'm an artist but I'm also a real person. I have bills like everyone else.