Military Expenditures Quotes

U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness.

It's not fair for the U.S. to spend, on arms and weapons, so much money and then not spend on health care the money that is needed.

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.

According to the National Priorities Project, military expenditures are 54% of the budget. The next biggest line item is 7%. And there are a whole bunch of 7 percents. So in short, we have a military budget surrounded by a lot of footnotes. This is not serving us well.

The military always asks for more [appropriations] than it gets.

We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged.

At the present time we are keeping our military expenditures below the…minimum which would in themselves ensure national security. By doing so we are able to increase our expenditures to assist in European recovery.

The Republicans can't say no to military spending, and the Democrats can't say no to social spending.

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

President Trump has called on other nations to do more, and they have responded. By the end of 2020, our NATO allies will spend an additional $100 billion on defense, an unprecedented increase that will make the alliance stronger.

Of all government expenditures, defense spending is the... most stimulative to the economy.

When once the whole body of the good people find that the military interest and capacity is their own, … and that in this posture they are most properly sovereign, … they will presently see a necessity of continuing ever one with their army, raised and maintained by them for the promoting this cause against the common enemy

University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy of a nation. They should be criticizing the prioritizing of funds for military and prison expenditures over funds for higher education. And this argument should be made as a defense of education, as a crucial public good, and it should be taken seriously. But they aren't making these arguments.

The only way we're going to keep America safe is to have an elite military, all right.

There's all these costs of war, and they're huge and long-lasting. It's not just the numbers CNN broadcasts. And we never want to pay the VA bill; we never want to pay the bill to take care of these warriors after we applaud their sacrifice.

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

We can cut the Defense Department budget because we’ve got bombs running out of our ears.