Defense Quote by Robert M. Gates

We cannot allow anything that's called 'national defense' to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don't…

— Grover Norquist

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

— Bob Beckel

On discretionary spending, we probably need to do some kind of a freeze except for defense.

— Scott Bessent

Large defense budget in the name of homeland security does not, only protect the interests of two people, having a weapon the other buying

— Mak_786

Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit.

— Ronald Reagan

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

— John Bolton

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a…

— Robert M. Gates

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

— George Wald

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

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

The Defense Department is prone to all of the 'traditional bureaucratic rules,' which is the same thing you'll find in most traditional government systems.

— Chris Fussell

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

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I…

— Stephen Harper