Donald Trump Quotes

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

America must always be the world's paramount military power

Developing a strategy, leading the world, funding it to make sure that we have a military that's second to none, and doing the job and making sure that we destroy ISIS there. That's how you keep America safe.

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 have the best-trained military in the world.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, my first priority is to ensure the readiness of our military.

For far too long we have continued to mark our military prowess by the size of our forces: believing that numbers of ships, planes, and brigades is what most matters - just like during the Cold War.

The United States has the most capable military in the world. We have the best intelligence agencies.

When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.

We will be substantially upgrading all of our military - all of our military. Offensive, defensive, everything. Bigger and better and stronger than ever before. And hopefully, we'll never have to use it. But nobody is going to mess with us, folks. Nobody.

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.

We've got to strengthen our military long-term. We don't know what the world is going to throw at us down the road.

In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.

We have the best military in the world.

Peace through strength works. We've got the greatest military in the world. I want them to dominate any potential conflict.

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

Our missile technology, our equipment, is better than anybody by a factor of five. I mean look, we have, in terms of technology, nobody can even come close to competing. Now we're going to start getting it, because the military has been cut back and depleted so badly by the past administration and by the war in Iraq, which was another disaster.

Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days. And so now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad... The odds are there's going to be a war and it's going to be not for very long.

We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.

My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.