Agencies Quote by Paul Gillmor

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 GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know…

— Carly Fiorina

It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would…

— Craig L. Thomas

“Given such an array of challenges, one might expect people to welcome federal help. In truth, a very large proportion of the yearly budgets---in…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

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 American people say, 'Don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense.' That's 84 percent of the federal budget.

— Kent Conrad

Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance…

— Scott Pelley

The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our…

— Jim Jeffords

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

— George Wald

When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.

— Leon Panetta

The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and many poverty…

— Pat Robertson

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