Jon Keyser Quotes

In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.

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

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

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 ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able to do it for us.

We have the best-trained military in the world.

I think I will be a great president having to do with the military and also having to do with taking care of our vets.

All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that.

We won't always have the strongest military.

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.

The mission of our military is to fight and win wars.

The military is arguably the most significant social institution in our country.

The only way we're going to keep America safe is to have an elite military, all right.

I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.

I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced.

Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.

All of the military services - land, sea, and air - spend a great deal of time awake. This is a direct result of the high tempo of operations we conduct while forward deployed well outside our national borders.

The purpose of our military is to field the finest troops possible to defend our nation and win wars.

To protect America's security, we are going to have to pull America's military out of the swamp of Washington politics.

It would be better for the country if the Pentagon and the military do not shut down at any point because the threats to the country do not shut down.

[Donald] Trump is speaking in Philadelphia on military matters. He's doing quite well. I want to join a little bit of this in progress just to give you a flavor for how Trump is sounding.

If they listen to the military people, we probably wouldn't be having an ISIS right now.

Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country

Our military is a disaster.

We're facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.