Barack Obama Quotes

Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

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

You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.

For far too long we have continued to mark our military prowess by the size of our forces: believing that numbers of ships, planes, and brigades is what most matters - just like during the Cold War.

Our national defense will be consolidated and no imperialist will be allowed to invade our territory again. Our People's armed forces must be maintained and developed with the brave and steeled People's Liberation Army as their foundation. We will have not only a powerful army but also a powerful air force and a powerful navy.

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.

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 Navy is now the smallest it's been since, believe or not, World War I. Don't worry. It's going to soon be the largest it's been.

We had 600 ships, a 600 ship Navy under [Ronald] Reagan. We're down to 200 now [in 2016].

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

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

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

Warfare evolves. It changes as a result of technology. It changes as the culture changes.

In the long run sea power will be no match for air power.

The only weapon with which we can expect to cope with other great nations is the Navy.

I believe that a navy is the greatest insurer of peace that we could possibly have—a navy commensurate with our resources and commensurate with the number of dependencies we have and commensurate with our population and commensurate with our influence as a world power.

A naval power, next to the militia, is the natural defense of the United States.

Rebuilding the military is something Putin will pay attention to.

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.

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

I can only tell you this and I used to speak about it all the time, we have a Navy that hasn't been in this position since World War I.

When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.