Grover Norquist Quotes

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

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

Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced.

I have long maintained the military budget is not a jobs bill... and will continue to support the lowest budget possible.

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

It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror.

But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

We can always find money for what the military wants.

When the greatest part of the [U.S.] budget pays for our defense and the livelihood of retirees, it is pointless to pretend that public spending is an embarrassment consisting only of welfare and waste.

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

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.

Every dollar needlessly spent on our military … diminishes our overall security.

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.

In a democracy you get the army that the people are willing to pay for.

Avoid the necessity of those overgrown Military establishments, which under any form of Government are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.

I regard a large standing army as an impossibility … because of the repugnance of our people toward a large standing force.

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

The Constitution places the responsibility on Congress for setting the size of the U.S. military, ensuring sufficient resources are in place to train and equip it, and funding maintenance programs and replacing worn-out equipment. We have a moral responsibility to ensure that our people are fully prepared and fully supported.

The military is arguably the most significant social institution in our country.

Our constitutional system is defined by a balance between the public's need for transparency and the government's need to have a zone of secrecy around decision making. Both are important, yet they are mutually exclusive.

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

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

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