Mark Pryor Quotes

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

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.

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.

Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements.

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

A military starved of resources, training, and equipment will not long be able to protect the country physically or economically.

I'm very, very pro-defense.

I believe that wholeheartedly - that we have to maintain a strong national defense.

I will not cut our military budget by a trillion dollars, which is a combination of the budget cuts Barack Obama has, as well as the sequestration cuts. That, in my view, is making our future less certain and less secure.

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

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

America's military is second to none in the world. We're blessed with terrific soldiers, and extraordinary technology and intelligence. But the idea of a trillion dollars in cuts through sequestration and budget cuts to the military would change that.

We are going to repeal the Obama-Clinton defense sequester and we are going to rebuild the military of the United States which is very, sadly, depleted.

Our military has been greatly weakened by a lot of bad decisions and other things.

It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what sort of forces would they be?

We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.

An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.

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.

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.

What's the point of having this superb military your always talking about if we can’t use it?

The military strength and resources of the State must be reserved for its own defense and protection exclusively …

How much do we really need for the defense of the United States of America? Only the defense to defend its shores? Well I suppose that the maximum for the defense of our shores is one billion dollars. So the rest of our defense budget relates to what we regard as our responsibilities as a world power.

When the economies of countries grow, their militaries generally do as well.