Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes

We must defend our NATO allies, but we should also ensure that everyone pays their fair share. The United States shouldn't be responsible for funding other countries' shares.

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.

I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.

The Pentagon has a long tradition of dialing up the threat to get more dollars at budget time.

Because the resources available to the U. S. military will be increasingly limited, the objectives must be too.

Nation building cannot be done on the cheap.

I love the U.S. military. I want them to be the most effective and the most cost-effective and I think there is so much spending and so much bloat and so much bureaucracy that it actually hinders them from having a lot of the mission accomplishments that they should.

The Pentagon needs precious resources to build the strength of America, and we can't say, 'this is really important to this community, and it's really not vital to the national security, but we ought to do it anyway.' So, I think we have to have a discipline on this

There has never been a military commander in history who didn’t want more men for a longer time …

Unless a capital change takes place soon, it will be impossible for me to maintain our posts and keep the army from dispersing

Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

… war is a matter not so much of arms as of money

It is not how much you spend on defense as much as how you spend it.

Show me your budget and I’ll describe your strategy.

If we can afford tremendous sums of money to win the war, we can afford to invest whatever amount it takes to win the peace

The way to cut the military budget is to go to the commanding officer of each military facility and tell him he will get another star if he cuts his budget, and we will be trampled in the stampede to save money.

We have multiple challenges competing for finite resources—–and grotesque uncertainty with regard to the military budget.

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

If the U.S. wants to destroy ISIS, it can destroy ISIS. We won't end terrorism around the world. But we can destroy ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Prominent generals are telling us that. Prominent national-security strategists are telling us that. So let's do it.

It is, of course, true that I have given priority to the settling of the problem of security and the problem of Irian Barat, although I knew that in order to do these things, almost three-quarters of our national product had to be spent.

Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.

Under Obama, we have seen the U.S. military - the most exceptional force for peace in the world - degraded, downsized, decimated and demeaned, resulting in massive international instability and potential threats to our homeland.

President Trump has made rebuilding our military strength one of his top priorities. More money is certainly required, but so is reform of the Pentagon and how it does business.

We made a clear commitment to NATO's two percent goal. I know that we can't get there from one day to the next, but I'm just as clear on the fact that we must get there in the end.