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If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army. -- Jim Talent
I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely. -- Vicky Hartzler
When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget. -- Leon Panetta
Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs. -- Herman Kahn
It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops. -- Pete Stark
The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together. -- Robert M. Gates
I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars. -- Rick Larsen
At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity. -- Pete Hegseth
Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures. -- Jennifer Granholm
There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force. -- Ted Stevens
In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. -- Jennifer Granholm
Policy is no longer being written by politicians accountable to the American public. Instead, policies concerning the defense budget, deregulation, health care, public transportation, job training programs, and a host of other crucial areas are now largely written by lobbyists who represent mega corporations. -- Henry Giroux
We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures. -- Jennifer Granholm
If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.' -- Mitch Daniels
But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.' -- Mitch Daniels
Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive. -- Pete Hegseth
There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget. -- John Bolton
The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels -- George Bush
The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels. -- George H. W. Bush
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product. -- George Wald
It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging. -- Zoltan Istvan
Using these new funds, I will ask my secretary of defense to propose a new defense budget to meet the following longtime goals. -- Donald Trump
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
Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low. -- Paul Gillmor
I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State. -- Robert M. Gates
The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it. -- Chalmers Johnson

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