Donald Trump Quotes

Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as ‘their home — their fortress.’ And good for them, I say. Well done!

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

The military strength and resources of the State must be reserved for its own defense and protection exclusively …

How much do we really need for the defense of the United States of America? Only the defense to defend its shores? Well I suppose that the maximum for the defense of our shores is one billion dollars. So the rest of our defense budget relates to what we regard as our responsibilities as a world power.

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.

The world relies upon, and America must rely upon, a strong military.

I'm very, very pro-defense.

The National Defense Strategy remains our guiding document, and everything we do should support its stated objectives.

My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it.

I will not cut our military budget by a trillion dollars, which is a combination of the budget cuts Barack Obama has, as well as the sequestration cuts. That, in my view, is making our future less certain and less secure.

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what sort of forces would they be?

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country, or not. I think at some point, we may decide that we don't have to have that size military and cost footprint in the country. You look at what you want to accomplish, how many soldiers you need.

The Defense Department has a great deal of influence on foreign policy, and State has very little impact on defense policy.

Let no one expect us to disarm unilaterally. We are not a naive people.

It’s not the plans, it’s the people. I think we should have Defense Department people.

When the economies of countries grow, their militaries generally do as well.

It is necessarily requisite to the peoples defense, that they be fore-armed. Now to be fore-armed is to be furnished with Soldiers, Armies, Ships, Forts and Monies, before the danger be instant; for the listing of Soldiers, and taking up of Arms after a blow is given, is too late at least, if not impossible.

As long as I am president, we will maintain the greatest fighting force that the world has ever known.

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

As the name of the agency suggests, 'Department of Defense,' the defense refers to the United States of America - not the defense of South Korea, not the defense of Ukraine, not the defense of Syria or Germany.