Pentagon Quotes

What would be Pentagon's answer to

— Mahmudul Islam

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

— Cindy Sheehan

I worked at the Pentagon.

— Andy Kim

The Pentagon's lost entire countries.

— Jack O'Neill

We would always be under The Pentagon's protective umbrella

— Omar Torrijos

The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

— Aimee Mullins

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

— Barack Obama

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,

— Bill Ayers

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

— Jim Talent

I have long believed there is a lot of waste in the defense budget.

— Bob Beckel

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

— Philip Berrigan

Do not compromise on national security for purely budgetary reasons. The world is dangerous, and we must always be prepared for anything…

— Sanford Bishop

One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget…

— Zainab Salbi

Saddam Hussein... I believe is involved with this World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing. I believe that you're going to find out…

— Bill O'Reilly

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man.…

— Norman Mailer

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous…

— L. Neil Smith

“He began to wonder with genuine concern just what sort of shithead the Pentagon had foisted on him.”

— Joseph Heller

I am sure that the Israelis and the Pentagon and everyone else are searching through this Bible Code minute by minute to…

— Drunvalo Melchizedek

Pentagon records show that at least 8,000 members of the all-volunteer U.S. Army have deserted since the Iraq war began. Hey, at…

— Tina Fey

Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't…

— Art Bell

At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a…

— Pete Hegseth

The Pentagon is a series of wedges. So you have - the outer wedge has windows on the outside, and then inside…

— Jack Keane

In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the…

— Lionel Barber

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

— Rachel Maddow

“I see the impossible work being done by of my friends at the federal agencies, the Pentagon, NATO, Five Eyes and the…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions…

— Rick Larsen

I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to…

— Karl Rove

There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are…

— Erwin Chargaff

Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a…

— Tom Hayden

9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people…

— Benjamin Barber

As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives…

— Henry Giroux

“The scale of U.S. military operations is remarkable. The U.S. Department of Defense has (as of a 2014 inventory) 4,855 military facilities,…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

Stalin was experimenting with telepathy in the 1930's. Winston Churchill had a paranormal office, trying to get people to travel out of…

— Peter James

Essentially Rumsfeld wins, Cheney wins, and the CIA and State Department lose. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have more centralized control over intelligence,…

— Seymour Hersh

National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but…

— Ben Bradlee

“When the enemy gets to your citadel, your prided epicenter, everything's in play.”

— Bill Maher

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.

— Donald Rumsfeld

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

— Anthony Lewis

The Pentagon should use data to guide financial decision-making.

— Joe Lonsdale