The budget for nuclear forces in the United States is on…

“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

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

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

According to the National Priorities Project, military expenditures are 54% of the budget. The next biggest line item is 7%. And there are a…

— Jill Stein

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

“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

On the other hand, you have to balance that against expanding our nuclear forces, add to our so-called depleted military, which is already more…

— Noam Chomsky

American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead,…

— Colin S. Gray

On nuclear war, actions in Syria and at the Russian border raise very serious threats of confrontation that might trigger war, an unthinkable prospect.…

— Noam Chomsky

Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group…

— John A. Lejeune

There's increasing consciousness that a "command and control" style of management which one associates with a male model isn't necessarily what works anymore, especially…

— Betty Friedan

As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.

— Kevin Allen

For so long, companies were run using a command-and-control, 'top down' hierarchical method that involved dictating down the command chain and maintaining order. What…

— Kevin Allen

Instead of command and control, managing the creative process is about facilitating and permitting.

— John Kao

To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any…

— Dee Hock