Rush Limbaugh Quotes

I think it's encouraging that President Trump is talking about strengthening our national defense, something he ran on again.

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

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.

Making America great again begins with making our military great again.

I see a comparison between the two [Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump]. Peace through strength. What Chris Matthews don't grasp is that day Donald Trump gave a speech in which he said he's going to build the U.S. military up to Ronald Reagan levels.

I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, what it does it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day - night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.

We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

We have to defend America and be strong.

The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

We can go to the American people on this issue of winning the war [against terrorism]. We can go to the country on this issue because they trust the Republican Party to do a better job of protecting and strengthening America's military might and thereby protecting America.

The Defense Department has a great deal of influence on foreign policy, and State has very little impact on defense policy.

We have a military policy instead of an energy policy.

Our military structure and tactics have been designed more to protect the service interest than the national interest.

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

There is only one Republican presidential candidate that has a proven, courageous, and conservative record on national security: Marco Rubio.

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

Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.

We had eight years of Barack Obama depleting our military, ignoring a lot of the threats around the world.

The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense.

The Democratic Party has been perceived to have a deficit of credibility on defense issues since the Vietnam War, unfairly or not.

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