John R. Allen Quotes

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

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

We ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able to do it for us.

We have the best-trained military in the world.

An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.

The purpose of our military is to field the finest troops possible to defend our nation and win wars.

A military starved of resources, training, and equipment will not long be able to protect the country physically or economically.

As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, my first priority is to ensure the readiness of our military.

The United States has the most capable military in the world. We have the best intelligence agencies.

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.

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army

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

When it comes to the military, we have no choice. We cannot have a depleted military.

America's military is second to none in the world. We're blessed with terrific soldiers, and extraordinary technology and intelligence. But the idea of a trillion dollars in cuts through sequestration and budget cuts to the military would change that.

America's military is the best in the world, but this president [Barack Obama] is hollowing out our military. We need a commander in chief that believes in American exceptionalism again.

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.

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.

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

I think I will be a great president having to do with the military and also having to do with taking care of our vets.

We must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual.

All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that.

Only 350,000 Serve in the Military, While the Internal Security Police Recently Hit the One-Million Mark

The mission of our military is to fight and win wars.