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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged. -- Gary Johnson
National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
We will build a Navy of 350 surface ships and submarines, as recommended by the bipartisan National Defense Panel. We right now only have 276 ships, and it's not enough. -- Donald Trump
In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World War II, more than $15 billion in unnecessary and fraudulent defense spending was identified. -- Bernie Sanders
It is true that I voted against the National Defense Authorization Act, because when I campaigned in Texas I told voters in Texas that I would oppose the federal government having the authority to detain U.S. citizens permanently with no due process. I have repeatedly supported an effort to take that out of that bill, and I honored that campaign commitment. -- Ted Cruz
National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people. -- Kim Jong Il
I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense. -- Don Nickles
I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty. -- Olympia Snowe
There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense. -- Noam Chomsky
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
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense. -- Marc Andreessen
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation. -- Randy Forbes
Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves. -- David Vitter
From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important. -- Russ Carnahan
The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security. -- Jon Porter
There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly. -- Ron Paul
Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world. -- Chris Chocola
The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms. -- Grover Norquist
We cannot allow anything that's called 'national defense' to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don't overspend and say, 'Oh, that's defense,' when perhaps it isn't. -- Grover Norquist
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When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.' -- John Breaux
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
We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense. -- John O. Brennan
I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable. -- Dave Brat
If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the ecosystem but for our population... we should be saving our old-growth forests as a matter of national defense. -- Paul Stamets
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information. -- Roger Wicker
President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government. -- Paul Ryan
I think what both Republicans and Democrats need to do and the leaders on both sides is to recognize that if sequester takes place, it would be disastrous for our national defense and very frankly for a lot of very important domestic programs. They have a responsibility to come together, find the money necessary to de-trigger sequester. -- Leon Panetta
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live. -- Ron Paul
We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense. -- Eugene McCarthy
National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman. -- John Adams
National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people. -- John Taylor of Caroline
In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense. -- Karl Liebknecht
There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war. -- Bill Nelson
The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home. -- Dick Gregory
This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration. -- Samuel Untermyer
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product. -- George Wald
From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree. -- Hugh Hammond Bennett
The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense. -- Charles Bass
My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it. -- Rand Paul
We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals. -- Anna Lindh
In addition to achieving outside the industry, agriculture, national defense science and technology modernization, we are faced with the important task of system modernization. -- Zheng Bijian
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More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense -- Marc Andreessen
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But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense. -- Don Nickles
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
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. -- John Hersey
To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?" -- Evo Morales
When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways. -- Robert Kagan
National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction. -- Jacques Chirac
Homeland defense doesn't generate any force requirements beyond having enough National Guard to save lives in natural disasters and to baby-sit nuclear power plants on Code Red days. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation. -- Joe Lieberman
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime. -- Charles Eliot Norton
I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area. -- Gary Johnson
National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences. -- John Adams
In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air. -- Giulio Douhet
The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland. -- Timothy Noah
Ronald Reagans vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves. -- David Vitter
The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the United States and the principles of fiscal discipline, limited government, accountability, and a strong national defense. -- Jason Chaffetz
There is not a single person in the national defense apparatus of this country that can guarantee you are going to be 100 percent right. And that's why as president, I'll take this very seriously. -- Marco Rubio
The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their origin to a zeal for liberty more ardent than enlightened. -- Alexander Hamilton

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