Erik Prince Quotes

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.

The armored vehicle manufacturing base is not a light switch that can be turned on and off at will. If we mothball production of systems like the Abrams tank, it will take time and money to get this capability back.

The defense industry understands that the military budgets will continue to be cut until a new threat comes along.

The Pentagon doesn’t need more money. What it needs desperately is a functional procurement system …. The result [of not having one] is not just ordinary waste, fraud and abuse … but also deep and lasting damage to the country’s ability to project power and wage war.

I intend to be an advocate for Picatinny Arsenal which plays a vital role in both our national defense and our local economy, and to address emerging national security threats such as climate change and cybersecurity.

The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.

Anne Arundel County has become the world's epicenter of military intelligence and defense-related information technology.

I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not to the military-industrial complex but to the military-scientific complex. You can see this in China.

I was a musician for years before I started doing this stuff. Show business was the only thing I ever considered.

President Trump has made rebuilding our military strength one of his top priorities. More money is certainly required, but so is reform of the Pentagon and how it does business.

In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.

I'm a busy girl, and I've been switching gears from telly and putting my heart and soul into music.

There is something different between defence deal and deal in defence.

I would like to go back to the private sector at some point.

I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my best here.

Most people don't go back to trial work after being in management, but I couldn't do anything else.

Before I was ever a baker, I was a teacher. Or, at least, that is what I thought I was going to be. After O-levels, I went to art school in Wallasey on the Wirral, and my mate Cavan and I did a teacher training course.

I'll never forget the day I went home and told my wife, 'I'll never be a kindergarten teacher.'

Of all government expenditures, defense spending is the... most stimulative to the economy.

I actually wanted to be a nurse, of all things.

I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism.

The transition from soccer to fashion was an organic one.

Picatinny Arsenal is the center of cutting-edge research and development for our Armed Forces, and I'm proud to fight to protect its mission and to bring new, innovative projects to the Arsenal.

Mississippi is home to a significant level of national defense work, such as shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, and critical research.

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