Ander Crenshaw Quotes

The defense industry understands that the military budgets will continue to be cut until a new threat comes along.

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

Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.

The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats.

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.

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

We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.

The armored vehicle manufacturing base is not a light switch that can be turned on and off at will. If we mothball production of systems like the Abrams tank, it will take time and money to get this capability back.

Well, no American wants to in any way hurt our capabilities to national defense, but that doesn't mean an unlimited amount of money, and a blank check for anything they want at any time, for any purpose. Not at all.

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

Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements.

This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.

It’s not the plans, it’s the people. I think we should have Defense Department people.

It is necessarily requisite to the peoples defense, that they be fore-armed. Now to be fore-armed is to be furnished with Soldiers, Armies, Ships, Forts and Monies, before the danger be instant; for the listing of Soldiers, and taking up of Arms after a blow is given, is too late at least, if not impossible.

The Pentagon doesn’t need more money. What it needs desperately is a functional procurement system …. The result [of not having one] is not just ordinary waste, fraud and abuse … but also deep and lasting damage to the country’s ability to project power and wage war.

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

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

Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts, they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts everywhere else in the budget.

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

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 has been so badly depleted. Who would think the United States is raiding plane graveyards to pick up parts and equipment? That means they're being held together by a shoestring. Other countries have brand-new stuff they have bought from us. It's insane.

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.

Our military is a disaster.

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