Affect Quote by Cenk Uygur

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

— James Surowiecki

The thing that really struck me was how many firms that we think of as strictly civilian had ties to the Pentagon. Companies like…

— Nick Turse

If you listen to the newsmen who are bought and paid for by defense contractors, they'll tell you that Edward Snowden is nothing more…

— Jimmy Dore

The domestic war against "terrorists" [code for young protesters] provides new opportunities for major defense contractors and corporations who are becoming more a part…

— Henry Giroux

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

— Robin Sloan

I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare…

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

— Richard Wagner

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

— Bobby Scott

Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

— Rand Paul

Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.

— Todd Tiahrt

We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country, or not.…

— Grover Norquist

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

— Ben Shapiro