Ben Carson Quotes

Our military is a disaster.

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.

I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.

We won't always have the strongest military.

America must always be the world's paramount military power

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

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

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

If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.

[Donald] Trump is speaking in Philadelphia on military matters. He's doing quite well. I want to join a little bit of this in progress just to give you a flavor for how Trump is sounding.

We will be substantially upgrading all of our military - all of our military. Offensive, defensive, everything. Bigger and better and stronger than ever before. And hopefully, we'll never have to use it. But nobody is going to mess with us, folks. Nobody.

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.

We've got to strengthen our military long-term. We don't know what the world is going to throw at us down the road.

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

The number one priority of President Trump is to rebuild our military, to restore the arsenal of democracy.

We do need our defense capabilities. It is a fact that the cuts we are facing today and the cuts that Senator [Ted] Cruz would have supported would leave us with an even smaller Air Force and a smaller Navy than the one we are going to be left with.

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

I see a comparison between the two [Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump]. Peace through strength. What Chris Matthews don't grasp is that day Donald Trump gave a speech in which he said he's going to build the U.S. military up to Ronald Reagan levels.

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

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.

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

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.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

We must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual.