Nirmala Sitharaman Quotes

I don't think we should be in the business of proliferating arms sales just to protect our industrial base.

The arms business is an absolutely acceptable business.

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.

When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.

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

1 in every 5 dollars that Washington [the United States] earns from arms exports is actually paid for by U. S. taxpayers.

Controlling 77 percent of the global arms market yields innumerable benefits for the United States: it decreases the costs of equipping American forces, emboldens U. S. Allies to stand up to common enemies, and facilitates joint operations.

The Pentagon cannot acquire any equipment or technology without adequate funding. And the current budget process does not allow for the development and deployment of solutions to urgent problems on the battlefield.

We have been compelled to create an armaments industry of vast proportions.

The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.

I never intended to be a defense contractor in the first place.

It's clear to me that many weapons sales are very short-sighted. The U.S. and other arms-producing countries sell weapons for a variety of reasons, but most sales involve strategic interest or profit motivation, or both.

I don't know what would happen if the media starts picking up a theme that Google is secretly building AI weapons or AI technologies to enable weapons for the defense industry.

Of all government expenditures, defense spending is the... most stimulative to the economy.

While the Pentagon ultimately awards military contracts, there is a reason for the review process. The Senate's subcommittee on Military Construction's approval carries weight.

Mississippi is home to a significant level of national defense work, such as shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, and critical research.

We as a country have something to learn from Israel, especially in the areas of security and defense, and we will of course be doing that.

When it comes to Israel's security, our military and intelligence cooperation, that's off limits. That's protected. That's sacrosanct.

France has been maintaining a very special relationship with India on defence matters.

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.

There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

Anne Arundel County has become the world's epicenter of military intelligence and defense-related information technology.

I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not to the military-industrial complex but to the military-scientific complex. You can see this in China.

I don't disagree with Senator Paul's position that we shouldn't be funding our enemies. But I absolutely believe that Israel is a priority to be able to fund and keep them strong and safe after eight years of this administration.

Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing weapons and exporting war to other countries.