Military Expenditure Quotes

#1. And every year the Pentagon bite of the federal dollar got bigger and bigger. In Reagan's eight years in office, military expenditure doubled from around $150 billion to $300 billion a year, until it represented nearly 30 percent of our overall annual budget and more than 6 percent of GDP.

Rachel Maddow

#2. By method and discipline are to be understood the marshaling of the army in its proper subdivisions, the graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the control of military expenditure.

Sun Tzu

#3. Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor.

Scilla Elworthy

#4. Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

Ellsworth Huntington

#5. Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

Terry Pratchett

#6. There's always that jumping off place when you're doing a sex scene when you can tell the crew's like, 'OK, it's comin'. At this point, it's actually not a big deal.

Taylor Schilling

#7. Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.

Kevin McCall

#8. It was one of my friend's most obvious weaknesses that he was impatient with less alert intelligences than his own.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. All I ever wanted to do was act.

Anthony Daniels

#12. My ex-girlfriend Lisa once said that every woman wants the same thing in a relationship: to be adored.

Neil Strauss

#13. If you look at the question of expenditure in Iraq, you have got to start from the one fundamental truth: that every request that the military commanders made to us for equipment was answered. No request was ever turned down.

Gordon Brown

#14. Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

Tim Ferriss

#15. The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me.

Heather O'Neill

#16. The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

William Herschel

#17. I'm scared of haunted things, like hearing noises in my house and stuff. That scares me.

Jermell Charlo

#18. Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds. That's going to be the downfall of music, if anything. Nobody enjoys one thing anymore.

DJ Quik

#19. I saw my potential as artistic director, which is very different from designer. Fashion companies might have $200 million to $300 million in annual sales - Hugo Boss has €2.5 billion. I have to create a world that is believable and also relevant in 7,000 sales points around the world.

Jason Wu

#20. The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

Gary Gygax

#21. What chiefly governs the [U.S.] 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.

Walter Karp