Gordon Gee Quotes

Without economic security, we cannot have national security.

If our economy is strong, that means the military will be strong. If our economy is weak, that weakens our military.

What we have to do is we have to make sure that our country is as strong as it can be economically and from a defense standpoint.

Our prosperity provides a foundation for our power. It pays for our military. It underwrites our diplomacy.

We've got to make sure that our economy is strong at home so that we can project military power overseas.

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.

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.

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

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

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

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

America is secure because we can afford the strongest military in history. Once the U.S. economy is no longer dominant, we are no longer safe, and the world becomes chaotic.

Clearly, we need a strong economy to build a strong military.

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

What we do have to do, is listen to what Donald Trump's been saying about our military. He's called it a disaster. He says our military can't win anymore. That's a direct insult to every single man and woman who's wearing the uniform today.

Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

Our strength and our security depends obviously on having a strong military, having a strong economy, and also on our ability to have willing allies and nations join us in common global efforts, the principal one today being terrorism.

When it comes to the military, we have no choice. We cannot have a depleted military.

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.

Israel is a long way from facing a threat to its very existence. We are too strong, both economically and militarily, for that. If anything threatens Israel, it is this form of paranoid thought that makes us think: "Oh God, they're going to kill us in two seconds! What should we do?"

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