Mac Thornberry Quotes

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

An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.

I have long maintained the military budget is not a jobs bill... and will continue to support the lowest budget possible.

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

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.

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.

We won't always have the strongest military.

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.

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

As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops.

Rebuilding the military is something Putin will pay attention to.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee - working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

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

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.

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

I will not cut our military budget by a trillion dollars, which is a combination of the budget cuts Barack Obama has, as well as the sequestration cuts. That, in my view, is making our future less certain and less secure.

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.

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

Our military has to be strengthened. Our vets have to be taken care of. We have to end Obamacare, and we have to make our country great again, and I will do that.

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged.

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

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.