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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

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

— Bob Beckel

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

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

— Jim Talent

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

— Robert M. Gates

If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

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

When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.

— Leon Panetta

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

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a…

— Robert M. Gates

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

— Jim Cooper

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