Rudy Giuliani Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump basically share a policy of brute military strength. And both, I think, make a lot of Americans uneasy about our foreign policy going forward, which needs a frank discussion. Likewise on the issue of student debt and the future of our younger generation.

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.

A stronger defense is an investment in peace.

President [Ronald] Reagan never has tried to become an expert on military matters. He never has endeavored to learn the most important details in that field, which lead to a situation in which his aides played a much greater roles than aides would have played under President Ford or let us say in the whole Nixon-Ford-Kissinger era.

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.

I do believe that while Donald Trump... "Make America Great Again" is not just domestically and economically. I think Trump is very concerned. Look at the money he wants to spend on the military. I mean, he wants to blow through the military. What for, if not to use it, or to use it as a deterrent.

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.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests. We have a missile program, and it is in the national interest whatever we want to do.

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

I believe in peace through strength. I would prefer to rely on the military rather than diplomats to protect our homes.

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.

Rebuilding the military is something Putin will pay attention to.

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

I don't think Donald Trump is Ronald Reagan.

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

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