Noam Chomsky Quotes

The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military than the rest of the world put together. We have 150 foreign military bases.

America's military is second to none in the world. We're blessed with terrific soldiers, and extraordinary technology and intelligence. But the idea of a trillion dollars in cuts through sequestration and budget cuts to the military would change that.

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

Any great power—especially a great one suddenly deprived of its traditional adversary—faces the perennial dilemma of showing a reasonable return on its costly military investments.

Japan is the only country in the world that does not call its defense organizations a military. That is absurd, when the government is spending 5 trillion yen a year for self-defense.

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.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

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.

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.

The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.

After announcing that the Stealth bomber would overrun by 16%, and would cost over half a billion:] Whatever it costs, it's worth it.

No state, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

It is not how much you spend on defense as much as how you spend it.

Avoid the necessity of those overgrown Military establishments, which under any form of Government are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.

As the name of the agency suggests, 'Department of Defense,' the defense refers to the United States of America - not the defense of South Korea, not the defense of Ukraine, not the defense of Syria or Germany.

The military is arguably the most significant social institution in our country.

Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States.

Today, we are not likely to need to organize local militias for our defense now we have something called the Pentagon.

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

The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense.

Congress votes for things the military doesn't want, and planes and other weaponry that cost a lot but don't work.

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

For far too long we have continued to mark our military prowess by the size of our forces: believing that numbers of ships, planes, and brigades is what most matters - just like during the Cold War.

The United States has the most capable military in the world. We have the best intelligence agencies.