Adjust Quote by John McCain

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

At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion…

— Pete Hegseth

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

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

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

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

— Jim Talent

With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to…

— Jeff Miller

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

— Bob Beckel

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.

— Dan Lipinski

Using these new funds, I will ask my secretary of defense to propose a new defense budget to meet the following longtime goals.

— Donald Trump

It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And…

— Nancy Pelosi

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

— Jon Huntsman, Jr