Cost Quote by Earl Blumenauer

War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it…

— Alice Walker

Because no matter how much money we spend there [in Iraq], as long as the people there see this money as... as assistance that…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

As a rich country, we can, in some sense, "afford" the war. But spending money on the war means that we are not spending…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The war in Iraq has been very, very expensive - partly because the Administration tried to keep the apparent costs down. But the benefits…

— Joseph Stiglitz

In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes - and nonessential…

— Robert Hormats

If we can spend over $3 trillion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, surely we can find the money to meet the long-term…

— Jan Schakowsky

Unfortunately, the war has cost America greatly - politically - throughout the world.

— Louis Farrakhan

America has spent as of one month ago $6 trillion in the Middle East. And in our country we can't afford to build a…

— Donald Trump

This Iraq war has been the most "privatized" war in America's history. It has seen the most extensive use of contractors. The contractors have…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I…

— Paul Bremer

The cost of war impacts all of us - both in the human cost and the cost that's being felt frankly in places like…

— Tulsi Gabbard

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to…

— Cynthia McKinney