Lawrence Korb Quotes

Well, no American wants to in any way hurt our capabilities to national defense, but that doesn't mean an unlimited amount of money, and a blank check for anything they want at any time, for any purpose. Not at all.

No nation, no matter how destitute, likes to be told how much military "security" to buy.

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

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.

I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'

We cannot allow anything that's called 'national defense' to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don't overspend and say, 'Oh, that's defense,' when perhaps it isn't.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

We disarm ourselves by making weapons so expensive.

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

There is no better constraint on the leader of a developing country than telling him that he has to pay cash for his weapons.

Any great power—especially a great one suddenly deprived of its traditional adversary—faces the perennial dilemma of showing a reasonable return on its costly military investments.

We can cut the Defense Department budget because we’ve got bombs running out of our ears.

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.

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

There is only one way safely and legitimately to reduce the cost of national security, and that is to reduce the need for it.

Wars cost money.

… war is a matter not so much of arms as of money

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

I think it's encouraging that President Trump is talking about strengthening our national defense, something he ran on again.

Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States.

Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion .

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.

Each proposed B-2 stealth bomber costs three times more than it would if every part of the plane were made from solid gold. The cost is $2.3 billion each.