Alliances Quote by Anders Fogh Rasmussen

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes…

— Chalmers Johnson

After many, many years of decline in defense spending across Europe and Canada, in 2016, we saw the first significant increase. We still have…

— Jens Stoltenberg

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on…

— Steve Forbes

It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of…

— James Fallows

World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even…

— Ban Ki-moon

It is a fact that the US defence budget is larger than the defence budgets of all other countries taken together. This is why…

— Vladimir Putin

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

One of the real costs of the war is that our security is actually less than it otherwise would have been - ironic, since…

— Joseph Stiglitz

There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of…

— Robert M. Gates

The U.K.-U.S. defense relationship is the broadest, deepest and most advanced of any two countries, sharing military hardware and expertise.

— Theresa May

We're spending on numerous countries - very substantial countries, you know the countries we're talking about - but we're defending them for a fraction…

— Donald Trump