Army Quote by Jim Talent

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 '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

It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the…

— Pete Stark

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

— Bob Beckel

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We need to spend more money to insure that our troops are properly equipped.

— Brian Higgins

I do not believe that we must maintain a bloated military budget which spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined…

— Bernie Sanders

As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years,…

— Jim Ryun

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

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

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

Cuts to defense budgets are already underway...there is now a lot of emphasis starting with the President that we have to build up our…

— James F. Hoge Jr