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
Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Normally, what happens when we have a national leader who wants to do something in terms of military intervention, he tells the… — Jack Keane 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
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
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
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
Right now we have a $600-billion or so Defense Department budget, but when you add in, for example, a trillion-dollar nuclear weapons… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Spending an extra dollar on the D.C. public school system isn't spending an extra dollar on education. Spending an extra dollar with… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Congress has really set this thing up in a way that they absolve themselves of blame, They have their scapegoats. They can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one were to claim that the U.S. occupation forces in Iraq have been provided with "keys to heaven" by the Pentagon,… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
The events of September 11 would have been impossible if there were no airport security system at all. If average Americans were… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
I'm talking to people all of the time. So it hasn't really had a big impact. Access is never my main concern… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Essentially Rumsfeld wins, Cheney wins, and the CIA and State Department lose. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have more centralized control over intelligence,… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people… — Benjamin Barber 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
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
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
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
Whatever lessons we take from this dreadful attack (on the World Trade Center and Pentagon), we should never forget that it was,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea. — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have… — Curt Weldon Copy Share Image
The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards. [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
We need to cut unnecessary weapons programs like the F-35 fighter plane that cost trillions of dollars and don't even work. — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
“That present she left in the bathroom was special. It's not a funk, it's a biological weapon. The Pentagon should be taking… — Gasmaskman Copy Share Image
The goal of our Pentagon leadership must be training and equipping a fighting force that is the most lethal, not the most… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
“In 1981, and 1983, and every year thereafter, right around budget time, the Pentagon released its newest installment of Soviet Military Power… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image