Military Budget Quotes

• Cada arma que se fabrica, cada buque de guerra que se lanza, cada cohete que se dispara significa, en última instancia, un robo a los que tienen hambre y no son alimentados, a los que tienen frío y no son vestidos. Este mundo en armas no gasta sólo dinero. Está gastando el sudor de sus trabajadores, el genio de sus científicos, las esperanzas de sus hijos. Esto no es un modo de vida en ningún sentido verdadero. Bajo las nubes de la guerra, la humanidad cuelga de una cruz de hierro.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Paz, Niños, Militares

  Discurso en Washington, 16 abr. 1953, en Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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• Cada arma que se fabrica, cada buque de guerra que se lanza, cada cohete que se dispara, significa en última instancia un robo a los que tienen hambre y no son alimentados, a los que tienen frío y no son vestidos.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Paz, Militar, Guerra

  Discurso ante la Sociedad Americana de Editores de Periódicos, Washington, D.C., 16 abr. 1953

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• Este mundo en armas no gasta sólo dinero. Está gastando el sudor de sus trabajadores, el genio de sus científicos, las esperanzas de sus hijos.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Niños, Guerra, Militar

  Discurso ante la Sociedad Americana de Editores de Periódicos, Washington, D.C., 16 abr. 1953

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• We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy.

  Carl Sagan

  Military, Common Humanity, Decision

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.178, Ballantine Books

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• Si nuestra nación atraviesa el Niágara financiero, no tendremos mucha fuerza y, a la larga, no tendremos paz. Actualmente estamos pidiendo prestado a inversores extranjeros todo el presupuesto de defensa. Dentro de unos años, gastaremos más en el pago de intereses que en la seguridad nacional. Eso no es, como dicen nuestros amigos militares, una "estrategia robusta".

  Mitch Daniels

  Military, Years, Defense

  Discurso de apertura ante el Comité de Acción Política Conservadora, pronunciado el 11 de febrero de 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Bajo las nubes de la guerra, es la humanidad la que pende de una cruz de hierro.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Militar, Guerra, Nubes

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• 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

  Military, Thinking, Welfare Programs

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.

  Walter Karp

  Powerful, Military, Cities

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• 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

  Country, Military, Reality

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• Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby do they attempt to distract the public from pressing domestic matters, serve the overseas interests of U.S. investors, justify gargantuan military budgets, and present themselves as great leaders.

  Michael Parenti

  Military, War, Order

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• In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Military, Years

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• I will not cut our military budget by a trillion dollars, which is a combination of the budget cuts Barack Obama has, as well as the sequestration cuts. That, in my view, is making our future less certain and less secure.

  Mitt Romney

  Military, Cutting, Views

  Fuente: genius.com

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• Si mi campaña no está en el debate, no hablaremos de cómo solucionar realmente este problema de la guerra interminable y en expansión, por qué tenemos que recortar el presupuesto militar en un 50%, por qué tenemos que traer de vuelta a nuestras tropas dispersas en el extranjero, la fuerza policial del mundo, en más de cien países, algo así como ochocientas bases, pero quién lleva la cuenta, por qué tenemos que traer básicamente esas tropas a casa y por qué tenemos que poner fin a esta política de cambio de régimen, estas guerras contra el terror, que sólo crean más terror. Esto debe debatirse.

  Jill Stein

  Country, War, Military

  Fuente: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Según el Proyecto de Prioridades Nacionales, los gastos militares representan el 54% del presupuesto. La siguiente partida más importante es el 7%. Y hay un montón de 7%. En resumen, tenemos un presupuesto militar rodeado de un montón de notas a pie de página. Esto no nos está sirviendo de nada.

  Jill Stein

  Military, Priorities, Lines

  Fuente: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Bill Clinton kept funding Star Wars. He took the biggest military budget to Congress in history. He routinely bombed Iraq, and he kept the barbaric sanctions in place. He's really played his part. The George W. Bush gang has taken it just a little further.

  John Pilger

  Estrellas, Militar, Guerra

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion per annum, which indeed comes to about two-thirds of the present US military budget. This gives us a rough sense of how much the eradication of poverty would cost.

  Thomas Pogge

  Military, Two, People

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Military, Important, Defense

  "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.

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• Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.

  Rick Perlstein

  Running, Military, Communication

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• The Chinese military budget today is officially listed as, I think, about $15 billion. But even if you double it, that's only a tenth of ours. So the possibility of China challenging the United States for the next ten years over the Pacific is next to zero. There could be a conflict between us and China over Taiwan, but I think that, too, will not occur with the proper policies on both sides.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Zero, Military, Thinking

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is to drive a knife in the heart of Israel... Jews don't like big military budgets. But it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States... American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don't want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel.

  Irving Kristol

  Powerful, Military, Heart

  "Congress Bi-Weekly". Book published by the American Jewish Congress, 1973.

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• The biggest budget is the military budget. For what? We're fighting two wars in very small countries that have no nuclear weapons, that have no capabilities to destroy anything. They probably couldn't even get to America.

  Lupe Fiasco

  País, Militar, Guerra

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• I do not believe that we must maintain a bloated military budget which spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined and may lead us to perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

  Bernie Sanders

  Military, Believe, Middle East

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• La otra parte de esto es que pedimos que se recorte nuestro hinchado y peligroso presupuesto militar. Y esto es algo que se hace posible pasando a una energía renovable 100% limpia, donde no podemos justificar las guerras por el petróleo, y donde no podemos justificar tener unas 700, 800 bases reunidas por todo el mundo en algo así como 100 países en gran medida protegiendo el acceso a los combustibles fósiles o protegiendo las rutas de transporte.

  Jill Stein

  País, Militar, Guerra

  Fuente: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Tanto [Donald] Trump como Hillary [Clinton] quieren mayores presupuestos militares y Hillary apoya el gasto de un billón de dólares del Presidente Obama para la llamada mejora de las armas nucleares. P

  Ralph Nader

  Militar, Apoyo, Presidente

  Fuente: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Hillary Clinton is going to find common ground with the Republicans on foreign and military affairs. They both want to enhance the military budget.

  Ralph Nader

  Military, Want, Common

  Fuente: www.democracynow.org

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