“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.” HeartSacrificeGratitudeSizeSpendingDefenseBudgetsGesturesThank YouVeteranMemorial DayVeterans DayOur VeteransVeterans Day Thank YouThank A VeteranThank You VeteranVeterans Day PoemsVeteran AppreciationFunny Veterans DayVeterans Day AppreciationUs VeteransThanking Our VeteransVeterans BraveryPatriotic VeteranDefense Spending Author:Jennifer Granholm
“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.” GivingWarWould BeMovingFocusTroubleColdCostUnionsSpendingDefenseOperationsAgencySovietCold WarSoviet UnionCiaDefense Spending Author:John P. Wheeler III
“After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.” SecuritySpendingDefenseSeptemberHomelandSeptember 11Homeland SecurityUnpatrioticDefense Spending Author:Jeff Flake
“Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.” CuttingSpendingDefenseFederal SpendingDefense Spending Author:Rand Paul
“Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.” AmericaEnemyCuttingInternationalSpendingDefenseTurmoilSpending CutsDefense Spending Author:Ben Shapiro
“The last four secretaries of defense have pointed out that defense spending creates jobs. So do pornography, prostitution, and narcotics.” JobsLastsFourSpendingDefenseSecretaryPornographyProstitutionNarcoticsDefense Spending Book:Against Empire Source: Against Empire
“Higher education isn't just a personal investment. It's a public good that pays off in a more competitive workforce and better-informed and engaged citizens. Every year, we spend nearly $100 billion on corporate welfare, and more than $500 billion on defense spending. Surely ensuring the next generation can compete in the global economy is at least as important as subsidies for big business and military adventures around the globe. In fact, I think we can and must go further - not just making public higher education tuition-free, but reinventing education in America as we know it.” ThinkingKnowsYearsImportantFactsBigsAmericaNextPayEducationEconomyGenerationsMilitaryCollegeAdventureHigherCitizensInvestmentSpendingDefenseBillionsCorporateWelfareEngagedGlobesNext GenerationBig BusinessHigher EducationGlobal EconomyWorkforceSubsidiesPublic GoodTuitionReinventingEducation In AmericaCollege TuitionDefense Spending 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.” YearsGovernmentRunningHalfMilitaryCostDollarsPrisonIraqSpendingDefenseBillionsOperationsParksAfghanistanSeptemberSyriaFederal GovernmentOngoingOther HalfPentagonMilitary OperationsDefense Spending Author:Susan Davis
“[Hillary Clinton] is talking about sequester. She's talking about defense spending freezes. He's talking about releasing this sequester, increasing defense spending, increasing the military, increasing our footprint in the world.” WorldTalkingMilitaryClintonSpendingDefenseFreezeFootprintDefense Spending Author:Eric Bolling
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.” WorldWayChildrenMadeWarPoliticalHumanityPoliticsPeacePresidentPovertyMilitaryThis WorldArmsColdGeniusConflictGunCrossesScientistFinalsHungerCloudsSpendingWar Of The WorldsIronFedsSweatAntiwarCold WarTheftRocketsVietnam WarGreat WarLaborersHanging OnMake Peace Not WarFree GovernmentArmamentEnding PovertyGovernment SpendingSpending MoneyWorld HungerUs PresidentPeace Not WarJust WarWorld PovertyCost Of WarMilitary SoldierWar On PovertyHunger And PovertyHunger PovertyGlobal PovertyGreatest MilitaryMilitary BudgetPolitics And WarMilitary SpendingCold WorldMilitary LifeWarshipsDefense SpendingPowerful GovernmentMilitary Weapons Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“We lead the world in only 3 categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of 20 year old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world I don't know what the f...k you're talking about.” KnowsWorldYearsBelieveRealCountryNextAsksNumbersTalkingDoubtGenerationsWorstStudentsCollegeCitizensPeriodsMembersAdultsAngelFaultsSpendingDefenseCategoriesAlliesCollege StudentsDefense Spending Author:Aaron Sorkin
“Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.” FormNamesPeaceBuildingSpendingDefenseDefense SpendingPeace Building Author:Kofi Annan
“This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.” WorldChildrenWarPresidentPovertyMilitaryThis WorldArmsGeniusConflictScientistSoldierSpendingWar Of The WorldsSweatAntiwarWorld War IVietnam WarWorld War 2Great WarLaborersMake Peace Not WarFree GovernmentArmamentEnding PovertyGovernment SpendingSpending MoneyUs PresidentPeace Not WarJust WarWorld PovertyCost Of WarMilitary SoldierWar On PovertyGlobal PovertyGreatest MilitaryMilitary BudgetPolitics And WarMilitary SpendingWarshipsDefense SpendingPowerful GovernmentMilitary Weapons Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.” HumansWellsSelfPassionGoalChallengesEffortDemocracySacrificeEconomicConditionsThreatDemocraticInstinctSoldierInternationalSpendingDefensePursuitCommandWell BeingDenialSupremacyCasualtiesPopulistSelf-denialMobilizationDefense Spending Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” MadeWarGovernmentPoliticalPeacePresidentPoorPovertyMilitaryArmsColdWeaponsGunArmyFinalsHungerFedsPatrioticAnti WarWorld War ICold WarTheftRocketsVietnam WarMaking PeacePeace WarGreat WarNo WarLaborersBeing At PeaceElection DayMake Peace Not WarFree GovernmentArmamentEnding PovertyInspirational MilitaryArms RaceWorld HungerUs PresidentPeace Not WarJust WarRoot CauseUs ArmyWorld PovertyCost Of WarWar VeteranHorror Of WarWar On PovertyUs PresidentialEnding HungerHunger And PovertyHunger PovertyGlobal PovertyCauses Of WarGreatest MilitaryMilitary BudgetGlobal PeaceFuture Of AmericaSignifyingPolitics And WarMilitary SpendingPreventive WarCold WorldWarshipsPro WarDefense SpendingMilitary Weapons Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.” PeopleHomeSchoolPayCitiesHalfMillionsModernCostHeavyFighterBricksWheatDestroyersBombersNew HomeCost Of WarDefense Spending Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.” EasyEffortCuttingSpendingDefenseVetoRampSpending CutsDefense Spending Author:Barack Obama