Awards Quote by Tom Fitton

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

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

Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the growth in…

— Pete Hegseth

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

During the cold war, it was easy for the Pentagon to justify its budget, as the Soviets essentially sized our forces for us. We…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

President Trump has made rebuilding our military strength one of his top priorities. More money is certainly required, but so is reform of the…

— Mac Thornberry

The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to…

— Timothy Noah

Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself…

— Rachel Maddow

The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the…

— David Swanson

The thing that really struck me was how many firms that we think of as strictly civilian had ties to the Pentagon. Companies like…

— Nick Turse

Congress votes for things the military doesn't want, and planes and other weaponry that cost a lot but don't work.

— Bob Beckel

The military gave me structure and process. That reflects on the way I believe we should handle legislative matters. If we do it that…

— Ralph Abraham