Budget Quote by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

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

— Jim Talent

It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the…

— Pete Stark

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

“As budget cuts cripple civilian agencies and programs, they lose their ability to perform ad they once did, so we look to the military…

— Rosa Brooks

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

I do not believe that we must maintain a bloated military budget which spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined…

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Bob Beckel

Cuts to defense budgets are already underway...there is now a lot of emphasis starting with the President that we have to build up our…

— James F. Hoge Jr

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

When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.

— Barack Obama

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

— Pete Hegseth

We're going to have to raise revenues in some form or fashion, and we're going to have to cut spending, including entitlements of all…

— Douglas R. Oberhelman