Phil Roe Quotes

As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, my first priority is to ensure the readiness of our military.

Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration.

The number one priority of President Trump is to rebuild our military, to restore the arsenal of democracy.

Our military and the strength of our military and the strengthening of our military is a number one priority for the Trump administration.

I am the most militaristic person but you have to know when to use the military. Or have it so strong that nobody is going to mess with you, which is my ultimate goal.

We ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able to do it for us.

I think I will be a great president having to do with the military and also having to do with taking care of our vets.

Let no one expect us to disarm unilaterally. We are not a naive people.

I'm a big fan of the military. I think we've got to preserve our military, no question about it.

I'm very, very pro-defense.

We've got to make America strong again. And right now, we are not strong. Believe me. We have a depleted military. We have the greatest people in the world in our military. But it is very sadly depleted.

If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.

This president [Barack Obama] is undermining our military. This president is more interested in funding Planned Parenthood than in funding the military.

[Donald] Trump is speaking in Philadelphia on military matters. He's doing quite well. I want to join a little bit of this in progress just to give you a flavor for how Trump is sounding.

We will be substantially upgrading all of our military - all of our military. Offensive, defensive, everything. Bigger and better and stronger than ever before. And hopefully, we'll never have to use it. But nobody is going to mess with us, folks. Nobody.

Donald Trump in Philadelphia, and he's delivering a very substantive speech on military preparedness, the status of the current military. He detailed the deterioration of the U.S. military in the past eight years and explained how he's going to rebuild it and why we need to, and it's a very tough audience. It's an expressly military audience, and they are of course listening for any sign that he's not really genuine here. I think, knocking this out of the park as far as that audience is concerned.

I think one of the reasons I'm standing here instead of other people is that, frankly, I talked about it, we have to have a strong military.

In America, we believe in peace through strength, and that's what we will have.

We do need our defense capabilities. It is a fact that the cuts we are facing today and the cuts that Senator [Ted] Cruz would have supported would leave us with an even smaller Air Force and a smaller Navy than the one we are going to be left with.

When it comes to the military, we have no choice. We cannot have a depleted military.

America's military is the best in the world, but this president [Barack Obama] is hollowing out our military. We need a commander in chief that believes in American exceptionalism again.

Our military is a disaster.

We have the best-trained military in the world.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.