Aircraft carriers Quote by Barack Obama

You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses…

— Barack Obama

I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.

— Frank B. Kellogg

We had 600 ships, a 600 ship Navy under [Ronald] Reagan. We're down to 200 now [in 2016].

— Rush Limbaugh

We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We've got…

— Mike Pence

On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at…

— Ray Mabus

If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

— Mark Twain

A fleet of the most powerful vessels would be of little use in war without a personnel at least as efficient as that of…

— William Sims

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

— Ernest Bevin

Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds,…

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the British. In some things they…

— John C. Calhoun

Our Navy is now the smallest it's been since, believe or not, World War I. Don't worry. It's going to soon be the largest…

— Donald Trump

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors…

— John Adams