Wayne LaPierre Quotes

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

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

… weak nation strategy

As he assumes the awesome responsibilities of the presidency, Donald Trump has inherited a world on fire and a U.S. military weakened by years of senseless budget cuts. I am encouraged that he recognizes these problems and has pledged to rebuild the military.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

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 American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

The National Defense Act of 1916 left the United States with a General Staff of 19 officers, against Germany's 650.

What's the point of having this superb military your always talking about if we can’t use it?

I knew we were going to get into this sort of a mess when we went in there. And I don’t see how we’re ever going to get out of it without fighting a major war with the Chinese.

Whenever America sends its citizens into harm's way, it must do so with eyes wide open.

I believe that wholeheartedly - that we have to maintain a strong national defense.

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

We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama's not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don't get the military right, nothing else is going to work.

As far as Japan is concerned, I want to help all of our allies, but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. We cannot be the policemen of the world. We cannot protect countries all over the world.

Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration.

The provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength.

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

I did a week-long assessment in 2005 at (then Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld's request. Following our return, I told him that Afghanistan was going to be the longest campaign of what we then termed "the long war."

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