Chris Christie Quotes

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.

Keeping our military strong means keepin' our families strong.

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

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.

We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'

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

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 have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.

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.

We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We've got to work with the congress and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.

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 is a disaster.

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

Americans will cheerfully forgo the luxury of new automobiles in order to assure adequate mechanized equipment for defense.

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

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

We are not a gigantic state, we do not have nuclear weapons, but our army is sufficiently capable to respond to any threat... Therefore, we will protect our patch of land, our statehood, and our independence.

This president [Barack Obama] is undermining our military. This president is more interested in funding Planned Parenthood than in funding the military.

I told you about the jet fighters. Well it's like that with so many other things. So we are going to take care of our military.

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.

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.

I've ordered plans to begin for the massive rebuilding of the United States military. Had great support from the Senate. I've had great support from congress, generally. We've pursued this rebuilding in the hopes that we will never have to use this military.

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