Arguing Quote by Robert M. Gates

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

— Bob Beckel

You're not hearing people like Madeleine Albright argue that the budget of the State Department should be as large as the Defense Department. The…

— Ronan Farrow

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

— Jim Talent

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

— Robert M. Gates

“Mueller and Stewart estimate that expenditures on domestic homeland security (i.e., not counting the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan) have increased by more than…

— Glenn Greenwald

“By 2001, even the peacetime US military budget was well over half the size of all other military budgets in the world combined.”

— Rachel Maddow

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for…

— Herman Kahn

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

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

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

It is a fact that the US defence budget is larger than the defence budgets of all other countries taken together. This is why…

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Leon Panetta