Jill Stein Quotes

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

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.

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

Congress votes for things the military doesn't want, and planes and other weaponry that cost a lot but don't work.

I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.

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.

I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.

We increased expenses, particularly in two areas: the military. If I put somebody in harm's way, they're going to get the best, as far as I'm concerned.

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?

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

World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

The military always asks for more [appropriations] than it gets.

The U.S. public is more likely to sour on a conflict when it sees the military losing blood, not treasure. So to keep up our staying power, our skill in hunting and killing our foes has to be matched by our care in concealing and protecting our troops. Three particularly obvious requirements are body armor, mine-resistant vehicles, and telescopic and night sights for every weapon. But these things are expensive for a military that has historically been enamored of big-ticket items such as fighter planes, ships and missiles.

Base closings [are] the most atrocious waste of money I have ever seen in my life.

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

You really can’t blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They’ve got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.

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.

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.

The United States historicaly has had its military more closely connected with new technology than any other coutnry.

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

The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced.

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

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

As the world's leading military and arms supplier, the U.S. is also the biggest producer of less than lethal weaponry.

If we have political forces in the Bundestag, and in parts of the coalition, who... say they want to spend money on pensions, not weapons. Then I say, be honest and say you don't want a German army.