Rachel Corrie Quotes

I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party.

Endless money forms the sinews of war. Nervi belli pecunia infinita.

The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.

The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.

We are funding both sides in the War on Terrorism. That’s what happens when you leave it to the market.

I know you Americans want a war but I'm not going to let you have it.

No nation, no matter how destitute, likes to be told how much military "security" to buy.

Wars cost money.

… war is a matter not so much of arms as of money

You really can’t blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They’ve got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.

The mainstream of both the Republican and Democratic Parties are equally committed to militarism today.

Nations want the United States to fight their wars, until they go bad.

You're not hearing people like Madeleine Albright argue that the budget of the State Department should be as large as the Defense Department. The Pentagon is going to be larger by its nature. It's going to have more people.

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.

World's major powers, including China and Russia, don't want to 'finance' American military adventures anymore.

I do not believe that we must maintain a bloated military budget which spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined and may lead us to perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

The IRS takes your money. Congress uses our money to arm our enemies. The IRS takes more of your money. Congress uses that money to fight the enemies Congress just armed.

It's not fair for the U.S. to spend, on arms and weapons, so much money and then not spend on health care the money that is needed.

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one we have right here at home?

Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.