Madeleine Albright Quotes

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

Sitting on the House Armed Services Committee is a great responsibility and an opportunity to represent not only the thousands of veterans in the 33rd Congressional District of Texas that I represent in Dallas-Fort Worth but also the active-duty men and women of our armed forces, national guard, and reserve components.

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

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 owe it to our troops to make policy that strengthens America now and in the future.

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.

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Making America great again begins with making our military great again.

It would be better for the country if the Pentagon and the military do not shut down at any point because the threats to the country do not shut down.

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

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

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.

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

Our military has to be strengthened. Our vets have to be taken care of. We have to end Obamacare, and we have to make our country great again, and I will do that.

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 have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.

As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.

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.

I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

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.

We won't always have the strongest military.

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.

As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops.