Mark Udall Quotes

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

Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.

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

Rebuilding the military is something Putin will pay attention to.

Senator Clinton is very knowledgeable about national security and is probably going to be strong on defense. I have no doubts whatsoever that if she were president in January '09, she would not act irresponsibly and issue orders to conduct an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the consequences, and squander the gains that have been made.

Under Obama, we have seen the U.S. military - the most exceptional force for peace in the world - degraded, downsized, decimated and demeaned, resulting in massive international instability and potential threats to our homeland.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.

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.

I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.

We are the nation’s force in readiness…. We are the nation’s expeditionary force.

The force that we went to war with after 9-11 was a force designed for the Cold War. We have much different needs today.

A Constitutional provision limiting the size of our army is a good idea, but we must also include a provision that no enemy may attack us with a larger army

America must always be the world's paramount military power

As chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I am confronted every day with the security concerns and threats to our own nation's safety, as well as threats to the rest of the world.

Making America great again begins with making our military great again.

I think it's encouraging that President Trump is talking about strengthening our national defense, something he ran on again.

As he assumes the awesome responsibilities of the presidency, Donald Trump has inherited a world on fire and a U.S. military weakened by years of senseless budget cuts. I am encouraged that he recognizes these problems and has pledged to rebuild the military.

Because the world we live in is more dangerous than our parents' was, and our children are set to inherit a world more dangerous than ours, Congress must get right our mandated mission to provide for the common defense of our country.

If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.

Our military and the strength of our military and the strengthening of our military is a number one priority for the Trump administration.

We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with major contingencies. Right now we only have 23.

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'

It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.