Budget Quote by Annie Lowrey

“Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes in the…

— Howard Marks

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.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to solve problems.…

— Trevor Paglen

We provide an enormous amount of resources, particularly with regard to military resources, to countries all over the world. And in many cases, those…

— Mike Pence

The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators [which are] particularly prominently used now in relation…

— Philip Alston

A thin safety net, an expansive security state: This is the American way. At all levels of government, the country spends roughly double on…

— Annie Lowrey

Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.

— Eric Holder

Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police. A penal…

— Michelle Alexander

We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence…

— Salman Khurshid

The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like Russia, China…

— Michelle Alexander

The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more…

— Noam Chomsky

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