Able Quote by Vicky Hartzler

I have long believed there is a lot of waste in the defense budget.

— Bob Beckel

When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.

— Leon Panetta

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other…

— Peter Orszag

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

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

Defense was one thing I was really able to work at and get better.

— Scottie Pippen

Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.

— Rand Paul

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

— Jim Talent

We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven't found the will to…

— John McCain

It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the…

— Pete Stark

“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

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes…

— Chalmers Johnson

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