Paul Ryan Quotes

During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.

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

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

OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run through September of 2016. Half of the trillion dollars goes to defense spending and the Pentagon. The other half goes to domestic spending - everything from prisons to parks. So there's also about 74 billion in there that goes to the military operations that we have ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria.

We are going to repeal the Obama-Clinton defense sequester and we are going to rebuild the military of the United States which is very, sadly, depleted.

National security - the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.

In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.

We need to spend more money to insure that our troops are properly equipped.

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

We can always find money for what the military wants.

In the military budget regionalism overcomes partiotism.

Sometimes Republicans want to cut the social welfare programs and yet they ask for billions and billions more for the Defense Department. I don’t take that approach.

Foreign policy debates are frequently segregated from domestic policy ones, so commentators who propose increasing the defense budget or sending more foreign aid are seldom asked to explain which domestic programs they’d cut or which taxes they’d raise, in order to find the money.

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

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

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

We need a strong, vibrant economy to produce the tax revenue to fund our military.

I have long believed there is a lot of waste in the defense budget.

There are many aspects of the government that operate off a continuing resolution. It's difficult to do so for the military.

Clearly, we need a strong economy to build a strong military.