Donald Trump Quotes

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

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

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've got to make America strong again. And right now, we are not strong. Believe me. We have a depleted military. We have the greatest people in the world in our military. But it is very sadly depleted.

We will be substantially upgrading all of our military - all of our military. Offensive, defensive, everything. Bigger and better and stronger than ever before. And hopefully, we'll never have to use it. But nobody is going to mess with us, folks. Nobody.

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.

Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration.

America has the strongest, best-trained, best-led military force in the world, and we have failed them. Our military today is struggling in virtually every category that measures preparedness.

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.

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.

The military strength and resources of the State must be reserved for its own defense and protection exclusively …

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

[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.

The first thing we need to do to make America stronger is to strengthen our military.

We have great people, we have a depleted military.

We do need our defense capabilities. It is a fact that the cuts we are facing today and the cuts that Senator [Ted] Cruz would have supported would leave us with an even smaller Air Force and a smaller Navy than the one we are going to be left with.

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

America's military is second to none in the world. We're blessed with terrific soldiers, and extraordinary technology and intelligence. But the idea of a trillion dollars in cuts through sequestration and budget cuts to the military would change that.

America's military is the best in the world, but this president [Barack Obama] is hollowing out our military. We need a commander in chief that believes in American exceptionalism again.

Our military has been greatly weakened by a lot of bad decisions and other things.

I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.

We won't always have the strongest military.

The world relies upon, and America must rely upon, a strong military.

I'm very, very pro-defense.

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