James Lankford Quotes

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

Let no one expect us to disarm unilaterally. We are not a naive people.

The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense.

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

The world relies upon, and America must rely upon, a strong military.

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

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

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.

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

Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'

We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

Our military structure and tactics have been designed more to protect the service interest than the national interest.

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

It is necessarily requisite to the peoples defense, that they be fore-armed. Now to be fore-armed is to be furnished with Soldiers, Armies, Ships, Forts and Monies, before the danger be instant; for the listing of Soldiers, and taking up of Arms after a blow is given, is too late at least, if not impossible.

Fighting terrorists does not require half a trillion dollars worth of conventional and nuclear forces.

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.

As the name of the agency suggests, 'Department of Defense,' the defense refers to the United States of America - not the defense of South Korea, not the defense of Ukraine, not the defense of Syria or Germany.

I'm a big fan of the military. I think we've got to preserve our military, no question about it.

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

As a member of the Armed Service Committee and a co-chair of the Democratic National Security Task Force, I will continue to work to keep Americans safe at home and abroad.

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

If somewhere is a deficiency the normal American answer would have been well then, let's spend some more money, build some more weapons and deploy them. That's the normal way of thinking of the military, in America not only but also all over the place, but America or Russia or other countries.