We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States,… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
“The Department of Defense is the largest, most complex organization on the planet: three million people, civilian and military, with a budget,… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“By 2001, even the peacetime US military budget was well over half the size of all other military budgets in the world combined.” — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
When I was working in the Pentagon, I had to own the recommendations I made up the chain of command. — Elissa Slotkin Copy Share Image
The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist groups like Christian Embassy have infiltrated the very top of the U.S. military and gained positions of influence in the Pentagon. — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the… — Earl Blumenauer Copy Share Image
Facts are now coming to light that show Muslims were not responsible for 9/11. A policy came out of the Pentagon to… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I regret that the Army felt it was necessary to rescind their invitation to the National Day of Prayer Task Force to… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
“Last week I wrote that the reason Hollywood films are so bad last 10 years is that all the better scriptwriters were… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it—everyday… — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton really transformed herself into a national security expert. She decided to join the Senate Armed Services Committee, and she became… — Michael Tomasky Copy Share Image
For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It wasn't until about a year, year and a half in where I began to realize that the Pentagon and our national-security… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There have been times where, let's say on LGBT issues, when we were trying to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
“Not surprisingly, there's nothing to do at the Pentagon except start a war. Tourist aren't even allowed to take photos with the… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody can prepare on a physical level. It isn't possible to prepare for what is about to happen. The… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
We must ensure that these acts of terror do not accomplish in a slow burn what the fires of the World Trade… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven't found the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee… — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S. ... and the cost accounting… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The Pentagon banned the army from using Chinese-made berets. In a more veiled slap at the Chinese, the Pentagon also banned any… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English… — John W. Vessey, Jr Copy Share Image
I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the… — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease,… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
It would be better for the country if the Pentagon and the military do not shut down at any point because the… — Mac Thornberry Copy Share Image
We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we… — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material, and… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
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