Cents Quote by George Wald

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

— Leon Panetta

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes…

— Chalmers Johnson

Right now we have a $600-billion or so Defense Department budget, but when you add in, for example, a trillion-dollar nuclear weapons program over…

— Jill Stein

I have long believed there is a lot of waste in the defense budget.

— Bob Beckel

Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget,…

— Paul Gillmor

We cannot allow anything that's called 'national defense' to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don't…

— Grover Norquist

There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

— Robert M. Gates

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

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

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

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