George W. Norris Quotes

I'm very, very pro-defense.

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.

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

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

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

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

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

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

Any great power—especially a great one suddenly deprived of its traditional adversary—faces the perennial dilemma of showing a reasonable return on its costly military investments.

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

I would be reluctant to suspend our capital ship building program until we have entered into an agreement for disarmament with other nations.

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.

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.

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 don't live under the illusion we don't need a military to protect this country.

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

Today, we are not likely to need to organize local militias for our defense now we have something called the Pentagon.

Our most important job in Congress is to provide for our national defense, and therefore, every year, Congress allocates funds and determines defense priorities in a bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA.

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

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?

Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as ‘their home — their fortress.’ And good for them, I say. Well done!

Using these new funds, I will ask my secretary of defense to propose a new defense budget to meet the following longtime goals.

Obviously, defence is very sensitive and very challenging ministry.