Agency Quote by John P. Wheeler III

We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where…

— John Spratt

Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think we will have to spend more on defense, for infrastructure, for extension of the broadband network and also for domestic security.

— Wolfgang Schauble

Current levels of Pentagon spending may not be able to support current defense strategy. The answer to this problem is right before our eyes:…

— William Hartung

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

— Jim Talent

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

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

While I wholeheartedly support finding cost savings through efficiencies in all areas of the federal government, including defense, I will resist any actions that…

— Doug Lamborn

“The scale of U.S. military operations is remarkable. The U.S. Department of Defense has (as of a 2014 inventory) 4,855 military facilities, of which…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the…

— Aldrich Ames

The Cold War is over. And our focus has got to be on intelligence, increased manpower, fighting internationally targets.

— Bernie Sanders

We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining 5,000 nuclear weapons. I think we need major reform in the military, making it more…

— Bernie Sanders