Budget cuts Quote by Franklin C. Spinney

“As budget cuts cripple civilian agencies and programs, they lose their ability to perform ad they once did, so we look to the military…

— Rosa Brooks

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

— Max Tegmark

What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon…

— Walter Karp

The only way to meet pressing social needs and be fiscally responsible is to cut the runaway Pentagon budget, which now almost equals the…

— Dennis Kucinich

During the cold war, it was easy for the Pentagon to justify its budget, as the Soviets essentially sized our forces for us. We…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

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 administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but…

— Russ Feingold

Current levels of Pentagon spending may not be able to support current defense strategy. The answer to this problem is right before our eyes:…

— William Hartung

The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and,…

— Walter Karp

You're not hearing people like Madeleine Albright argue that the budget of the State Department should be as large as the Defense Department. The…

— Ronan Farrow

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts…

— Jessica Mathews

President Trump has made rebuilding our military strength one of his top priorities. More money is certainly required, but so is reform of the…

— Mac Thornberry