Bases Quote by Bill Ayers

World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even…

— Ban Ki-moon

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

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 scale of U.S. military operations is remarkable. The U.S. Department of Defense has (as of a 2014 inventory) 4,855 military facilities, of which…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

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

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 U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more…

— Noam Chomsky

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

It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.

— Cynthia McKinney

It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of…

— James Fallows

“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

We provide an enormous amount of resources, particularly with regard to military resources, to countries all over the world. And in many cases, those…

— Mike Pence