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What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon…

— Walter Karp

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

“And every year the Pentagon bite of the federal dollar got bigger and bigger. In Reagan’s eight years in office, military expenditure doubled from…

— Rachel Maddow

The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the…

— Robert D. Kaplan

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

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

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

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

“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

Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson