Cindy Hyde-Smith Quotes

The United States has the largest and best navy in the world.

The only weapon with which we can expect to cope with other great nations is the Navy.

Rebuilding the military is something Putin will pay attention to.

As he assumes the awesome responsibilities of the presidency, Donald Trump has inherited a world on fire and a U.S. military weakened by years of senseless budget cuts. I am encouraged that he recognizes these problems and has pledged to rebuild the military.

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.

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

We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We've got to work with the congress and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.

We are going to repeal the Obama-Clinton defense sequester and we are going to rebuild the military of the United States which is very, sadly, depleted.

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

On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.

In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

It would be a good occasion to begin a navy

A naval power, next to the militia, is the natural defense of the United States.

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

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

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

The goal is to deter war, and this can only be done with a strong, modern, and ready military that has overmatch in all domains.

Since the littoral combat ship plays a vital role, we want to make sure we're buying the correct version.

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

This president [Barack Obama] is undermining our military. This president is more interested in funding Planned Parenthood than in funding the military.

Donald Trump has made it clear, he wants to make a priority of national security, rebuilding our military, but he wants to do it in a fiscally responsible way.

I've ordered plans to begin for the massive rebuilding of the United States military. Had great support from the Senate. I've had great support from congress, generally. We've pursued this rebuilding in the hopes that we will never have to use this military.

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

A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.