America Quote by Lupe Fiasco

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

According to the National Priorities Project, military expenditures are 54% of the budget. The next biggest line item is 7%. And there are a…

— Jill Stein

The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of…

— Robert M. Gates

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

— Jim Talent

Budgets reflect our priorities, who we are as a nation, what we're going to put first, and emphasize and invest.

— Brad Schneider

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

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

[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension…

— Paul Krugman

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

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

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

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