Budgets Quote by Jill Stein

Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending,…

— Dale Bumpers

The budget for nuclear forces in the United States is on the order of $25 billion or so. That includes warheads, delivery systems, command…

— John Burroughs

The biggest budget is the military budget. For what? We're fighting two wars in very small countries that have no nuclear weapons, that have…

— Lupe Fiasco

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

Global military spending levels constitute an unconscionable use of resources and remain at an all-time high, reaching a total of USD 1.75 trillion in…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even…

— Ban Ki-moon

“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

If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

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

It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.

— Zoltan Istvan

The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a…

— Bill Ayers

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