Billions Quote by Ben Cohen

If we reduced the amount we spend on maintaining our nuclear weapons by a small fraction, we could reallocate those funds to improve kids'…

— Ben Cohen

We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never have to…

— Dianne Feinstein

“I’m no military expert, and these figures might not be exactly right. But as best as I can tell, we’ve launched 114 Tomahawk cruise…

— Greg Mortenson

We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining 5,000 nuclear weapons. I think we need major reform in the military, making it more…

— Bernie Sanders

The budget for nuclear forces in the United States is on the order of $25 billion or so. That includes warheads, delivery systems, command…

— John Burroughs

Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a…

— Mark Z. Jacobson

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

— Kofi Annan

We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a…

— Barack Obama

We need more money for schools. We need more money for the kids. Ever think maybe the damn kids aren't worth it?

— Greg Giraldo

Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.

— Angelina Jolie

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