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“The reduction in world conflicts led to defense budget cuts that hurt military contractors.”

— Max Tegmark

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other…

— Peter Orszag

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on…

— Steve Forbes

Cuts to defense budgets are already underway...there is now a lot of emphasis starting with the President that we have to build up our…

— James F. Hoge Jr

Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts, they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts…

— Cenk Uygur

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 '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

Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.

— Rand Paul

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

— Leon Panetta

This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part not to…

— Robert Higgs

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Jon Huntsman, Jr