Civilian Quote by Rosa Brooks

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

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

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts…

— Jessica Mathews

I don't want to revisit history or try to re-interpret it, you know, but starting from where we are now, given the experience that…

— Jill Stein

The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but…

— Russ Feingold

“The reduction in world conflicts led to defense budget cuts that hurt military contractors.”

— Max Tegmark

Under the Obama administration, the military faced drastic cuts leaving them with scarce and out-of-date resources.

— Mike Johnson

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

Pentagon's readiness and modernization problems are not due to budget cuts. The are the result of habitual modes of conduct evolved during the Cold…

— Franklin C. Spinney

This will be one of my most important elements. When I talk cost cutting, I do for so many different departments where the money…

— Donald Trump

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

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

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

— Jim Talent