Army Quote by Scott Pelley

[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension…

— Paul Krugman

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 federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

— Paul Krugman

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

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.

— Ezra Klein

For Social Security to be financially sound, the federal government should have $100 trillion - a sum of money six-and-a-half times the size of…

— John C. Goodman

Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on…

— Ted Cruz

Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of…

— John Cornyn

Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget,…

— Paul Gillmor

“The scale of U.S. military operations is remarkable. The U.S. Department of Defense has (as of a 2014 inventory) 4,855 military facilities, of which…

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were…

— John Breaux

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

— Rand Paul