According to the National Priorities Project, military…

One needs to redistribute and restructure expenditures in favour of infrastructure, education and so on. Such military expenditures are heavy to carry.

— Anton Siluanov

What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon…

— Walter Karp

In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of what amounts…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

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…

— Noam Chomsky

Meanwhile, the U.S. debt remains, as it has been since 1790, a war debt; the United States continues to spend more on its military…

— David Graeber

Both [Donald] Trump and Hillary [Clinton] want bigger military budgets and Hillary supports President Obama's one trillion dollar expenditure to so-called upgrade nuclear weapons.…

— Ralph Nader

“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

The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and,…

— Walter Karp

The budget for nuclear forces in the United States is on the order of $25 billion or so. That includes warheads, delivery systems, command…

— John Burroughs

“The Department of Defense is the largest, most complex organization on the planet: three million people, civilian and military, with a budget, the last…

— Robert M. Gates

The other piece of this is that we call for cutting our bloated and dangerous military budget. And this is something that is made…

— Jill Stein

If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding…

— Jill Stein

“Mueller and Stewart estimate that expenditures on domestic homeland security (i.e., not counting the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan) have increased by more than…

— Glenn Greenwald