In 1981, and 1983, and every year thereafter, right around…

The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and…

— John F. Kerry

“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

Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself…

— Rachel Maddow

if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

— Rachel Maddow

“And every year the Pentagon bite of the federal dollar got bigger and bigger. In Reagan’s eight years in office, military expenditure doubled from…

— Rachel Maddow

This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to…

— Ulrich Beck

A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military…

— Ben Bova

Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for long periods…

— Nicholas Rodger

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

— John Mearsheimer

In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power.…

— Amory Lovins

Iraqi fighters on the front lines, You courageous officers and soldiers who have been fighting valiantly and efficiently - you have restored the glories…

— Saddam Hussein

Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to build because…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances.

— John F. Kerry

Great powers react harshly when distant rivals project military power into their neighborhood, much less attempt to make a country on their border an…

— John Mearsheimer

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of…

— George C. Marshall