Absolutes Quote by Vladimir Putin

Russia is really a sort of a nonentity when it comes to - the economy is the size of the state of New York.…

— Bill Browder

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

— George Wald

We see a more assertive Russia, which has implemented a very significant military buildup over several years, and a Russia which has used military…

— Jens Stoltenberg

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

Because of its huge territory, Russia must devote a great deal of attention to security.

— Sergei Ivanov

It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilities and vulnerabilities and embarked on an ambitious…

— H. R. McMaster

U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy…

— Noam Chomsky

“The Department of Defense is the largest, most complex organization on the planet: three million people, civilian and military, with a budget, the last…

— Robert M. Gates

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

— Jim Talent

I think the soft underbelly of Russia is - what's driving their ability to be aggressive is their energy. If you take the energy…

— Ryan Zinke

The political elite in Russia don't want domestic reform, they aren't ready for it. As such, they welcome an external threat. You have to…

— Sergey Karaganov

As the name of the agency suggests, 'Department of Defense,' the defense refers to the United States of America - not the defense of…

— Ann Coulter