Mitt Romney Quotes

We won't always have the strongest military.

The goal is to deter war, and this can only be done with a strong, modern, and ready military that has overmatch in all domains.

As a national security aid, I worked with our military to strengthen our national defense.

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.

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

Let no one expect us to disarm unilaterally. We are not a naive people.

Rebuilding the military is something Putin will pay attention to.

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

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

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.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.

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 must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual.

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

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

The military capabilities of the United States need to be kept comfortably superior to those of present and potential enemies. But they should be measured relatively, against those enemies’ capabilities, and not against the limit of what is technologically possible or based on some vague urge to have more.

America must always be the world's paramount military power

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

The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats.

I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced.

I have long maintained the military budget is not a jobs bill... and will continue to support the lowest budget possible.

A military starved of resources, training, and equipment will not long be able to protect the country physically or economically.