Defense Contractors, Defence Contracting, Defence Contract Quotes

No private enterprises should be allowed to think of itself as too big to fail. No taxpayer bailouts should allow executives or stockholders to relax.

War is a racket.... The only way to stop it is by conscription of capital before conscription of the nation's manhood.... Let the officers and directors of our armament factories, our gun builders and munitions makers and shipbuilders all be conscripted—to get $30 a month, the same wage paid to our lads in the trenches. Give capital 30 days to think it over and you will learn by that time there will be no war. That will stop the racket—that, and nothing else.

The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

America must get off a permanent war footing.

War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.

Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex.

... a caricature of Mr. Military Industrial Complex.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

The military pork barrel spreads special privilege far beyond the confines of the arms contractors; it directly creates at least two million industrial jobs, every holder of which is all too dependent for his well-being on the well-being of the party oligarchs and the success of their corrupt policies. By virtue of the military budget, a large number of ordinary citizens have been given a direct stake in corrupt power.

The Military Industrial Complex. President Eisenhower had it wrong. It’s the Military Industrial Congressional Complex.

The purchase of unnecessary military hardware is undoubtedly the most wasteful element in American government.

We have been compelled to create an armaments industry of vast proportions.

While the Pentagon ultimately awards military contracts, there is a reason for the review process. The Senate's subcommittee on Military Construction's approval carries weight.

Today, we are not likely to need to organize local militias for our defense now we have something called the Pentagon.

The wonder of this month's military procurement scandal is that it can still scandalize us. The practices that are being exposed—the revolving door between government and industry, the mutual backscratching between the military and the companies that build the weapons—aren't abuses of the system. They are the system.

The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.

It is my desire that the airplane be produced in quantity so that it can be used in this war—not the next.

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

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

The existence of an immensely powerful military-industrial complex constitutes a danger to democracy, both internationally and domestically, because it follows its own logic and operates independently of popular participation.

Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts, they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts everywhere else in the budget.

Armament firms have been active in fomenting war scares and in persuading their own countries to increase their armaments.

We will not leave the men and the women who helped to win the cold war out in the cold.

Controlling 77 percent of the global arms market yields innumerable benefits for the United States: it decreases the costs of equipping American forces, emboldens U. S. Allies to stand up to common enemies, and facilitates joint operations.