Afghanistan Quote by Jill Stein

By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.

— Jill Stein

In 1995, world military spending totaled nearly $800 billion. If we redirected just $40 billion of those resources over the next 10 years to…

— Óscar Arias

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The Bush administration has been doing everything it can to hide the huge number of returning veterans who are severely wounded - 17,000 so…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Similarly, payments for a dead soldier amount to only $500,000, which is far less than standard estimates of the lifetime economic cost of a…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“The income ratio of the one-fifth of the world's population in the wealthiest countries to the one-fifth in the poorest went from 30 to…

— John Perkins

We spend $3 trillion a year [on healthcare] and we're only getting sicker.

— Jill Stein

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

— Michael Ignatieff

It’s over 800 billion dollars that we have expended [in Iraq]. I believe that Iraq should pay us back for the money that we…

— Michele Bachmann

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the…

— John Spratt

It's not fair for the U.S. to spend, on arms and weapons, so much money and then not spend on health care the money…

— Óscar Arias

“The soaring cost of health care has become the greatest threat to the long-term solvency of most advanced nations, and the incurable account for…

— Atul Gawande