Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes

The purchase of unnecessary military hardware is undoubtedly the most wasteful element in American government.

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

There is so much crap [waste] going on over there [the Pentagon], I could run the Navy Department on the cost-of-living increases alone.

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

I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich. I think it's one of the most massive wastes in the world, but education is [at the] other end. It's the bearer of the greatest fruits that mankind has ever known.

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

I've had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries.

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.

We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

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.

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

The idea of the World Bank loaning money to a nation that has a space program and is building nuclear submarines is just ridiculous.

We disarm ourselves by making weapons so expensive.

Where the public money runs deepest the hogs fight each other to get their snouts in the trough, and the big trough nowadays runs through the Pentagon.

In peace and war it's always money.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

Endless money forms the sinews of war. Nervi belli pecunia infinita.

There is no better constraint on the leader of a developing country than telling him that he has to pay cash for his weapons.

No nation, no matter how destitute, likes to be told how much military "security" to buy.

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.

We can cut the Defense Department budget because we’ve got bombs running out of our ears.

What chiefly governs the 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.