Administration Quote by Russ Feingold

“As budget cuts cripple civilian agencies and programs, they lose their ability to perform ad they once did, so we look to the military…

— Rosa Brooks

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

I do not believe that we must maintain a bloated military budget which spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined…

— Bernie Sanders

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

The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White House. You…

— Bruce Bartlett

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

The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

Global military spending levels constitute an unconscionable use of resources and remain at an all-time high, reaching a total of USD 1.75 trillion in…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Well, I think the president has clearly submitted us a tight budget, but it's what's called for if we're going to get spending under…

— Thad Cochran