Alleged Quote by Craig L. Thomas

Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.

— Rand Paul

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

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

— Leon Panetta

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

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

We have to cut spending. We're - the thing is out of control.

— Tim Pawlenty

In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare…

— Jennifer Granholm

My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask…

— Herman Cain

The American people say, 'Don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense.' That's 84 percent of the federal budget.

— Kent Conrad

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

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

After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25…

— Pat Toomey

We must cut federal spending - every wasted dollar, every low priority program, and every unconstitutional overreach - every day.

— Kevin Brady