Bob Herbert Quotes

It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.

Last year 100,000 people gathered on The Mall to Protest the deficit. We Republicans, over and over, castigated President Obama for creating a Trillion dollar deficit. I was against big deficits then, and I am agaist them now. Just because it is now Republicans doing all the spending, I am still opposed.... Those Republcians who voted for a tax cut and a spending increase are hypocrites.

Militarism is the most energy-intensive, entropic activity of humans, since it converts stored energy and materials directly into waste and destruction without any useful intervening fulfillment of basic human needs. Ironically, the net effect of military, as opposed to civilian, expenditures is to increase unemployment and inflation.

I do not believe that we must maintain a bloated military budget which spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined and may lead us to perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to not just the top 1 percent but the top 0.1 percent.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low.

The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.

Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn.

I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.

The pork part of the budget is reaching new highs.

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

In the military budget regionalism overcomes partiotism.

Those who make the most and loudest speeches about deficit reduction are least likely to vote against spending.

I urge the Congress to avoid running up large costs for future generations of Americans.

Foreign policy debates are frequently segregated from domestic policy ones, so commentators who propose increasing the defense budget or sending more foreign aid are seldom asked to explain which domestic programs they’d cut or which taxes they’d raise, in order to find the money.

To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

I have long maintained the military budget is not a jobs bill... and will continue to support the lowest budget possible.