Christopher Dodd Quotes

We had eight years of Barack Obama depleting our military, ignoring a lot of the threats around the world.

Clearly, we need a strong economy to build a strong military.

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.

My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

If our economy is strong, that means the military will be strong. If our economy is weak, that weakens our military.

Our prosperity provides a foundation for our power. It pays for our military. It underwrites our diplomacy.

Poland not only has a capable military but also is strong economically and does not need money being raised for it.

We need a strong, vibrant economy to produce the tax revenue to fund our military.

We've got to make America strong again. And right now, we are not strong. Believe me. We have a depleted military. We have the greatest people in the world in our military. But it is very sadly depleted.

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist -- McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.

We've allowed our military to decay, and we project weakness on the international stage.

We've got to make sure that our economy is strong at home so that we can project military power overseas.

We've got to strengthen our military long-term. We don't know what the world is going to throw at us down the road.

Keeping our military strong means keepin' our families strong.

We have to stand for our principles, stand for our allies, stand for a strong military and stand for a stronger economy.

We need to focus on building a military that is second-to-none ... so that we can destroy Islamic terrorism.

I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.

A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

It is a major world power, and today it is an economic and military leader - no doubt about it. That is why America has a strong influence on the situation in the world in general.

At the same time, we're going to take care of our military and we're going to take care of our great, great, great veterans.

I think that we're always gonna be in a position as Republicans and as conservatives where we gotta be willing to stand up for our conservative values. And certainly, you know, at the top of that list is a strong national defense, the importance of a United States military that is superior to all others in the world.

I'm very, very so-called conservative on the military. I want a very, very strong military. I want to build up - you know, our military is totally depleted. We're going to care of our vets as part of that whole situation because our vets are not taken care of properly.

We continue to stand united with Germany and our NATO allies in our ongoing efforts to build peace and stability in Afghanistan.