Achieve Quote by Ban Ki-moon

In 1995, world military spending totaled nearly $800 billion. If we redirected just $40 billion of those resources over the next 10 years to…

— Óscar Arias

Global military spending levels constitute an unconscionable use of resources and remain at an all-time high, reaching a total of USD 1.75 trillion in…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a…

— Bill Ayers

Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending,…

— Dale Bumpers

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

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'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich.…

— Amartya Sen

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

“And every year the Pentagon bite of the federal dollar got bigger and bigger. In Reagan’s eight years in office, military expenditure doubled from…

— Rachel Maddow

Right now we have a $600-billion or so Defense Department budget, but when you add in, for example, a trillion-dollar nuclear weapons program over…

— Jill Stein

“The income ratio of the one-fifth of the world's population in the wealthiest countries to the one-fifth in the poorest went from 30 to…

— John Perkins

OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run through September…

— Susan Davis