Best cost & defense Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.”

Kids Young Willing Cost Defense Transactions Barricades

Author:Murray Rothbard

“What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.”

Trying Persons Self Seems Government Effort Roles Health Citizens Cost Essentials Eternal Obvious Harm Defense Lists Priorities Germs Facilitate Availability

Author:Keith Olbermann

“The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.”

People Firsts America Lying Lines Liberty Economic Security Cost Protection Defense Agreement Economic Security

Book:Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944

Source: Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944

“The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.”

Giving War Would Be Moving Focus Trouble Cold Cost Unions Spending Defense Operations Agency Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Cia Defense Spending

Author:John P. Wheeler III

“We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.”

Knows Has Beens War Cost Defense August Ups & Downs December

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost, America will keep itself secure. But in the process we must not, by our own hand, destroy or distort the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one sure way to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts.”

“When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need.”

Needs Mean Government School Pay Break Special Cost Taxes Defense Corporations Expenses Medicare Subsidies National Defense Tax Breaks Handouts Good School

Author:Robert Reich

“OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run through September of 2016. Half of the trillion dollars goes to defense spending and the Pentagon. The other half goes to domestic spending - everything from prisons to parks. So there's also about 74 billion in there that goes to the military operations that we have ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria.”

“I think we need missile defense. But I want to make sure it works, that it's cost effective, that the technologies are operable, that it's our best possible strategy, and that hasn't been shown.”

Thinking Want Needs Technology Cost Strategy Defense Missiles Missile Defense

Author:Barack Obama

“Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially since they're given no competent legal counsel defense in many cases. It's a system that has to be perfect. You cannot execute one innocent person. No system is perfect. And to top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics it, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.”

Cost Quotes

Related topics

Cost Quotes