Army Quote by Paul Krugman

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

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 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

The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and,…

— Walter Karp

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

A budget matters to people who worry about protecting and saving critical programs like Medicare and Social Security. A budget matters to younger workers…

— Susan Brooks

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

The way to balance the budget is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans…

— Howard Dean

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

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

The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the…

— Robert D. Kaplan