Political Quotes

“Let me explain why I do not agree that the Spratt budget is the best budget. It is true that we can take more money out of what I would call the operational military, and that is the side of the military from which ammunition, readiness, present operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are funded; and we can move it over to the nonoperational military and give more benefits on that side. The problem with that is that that amounts to a reduction in the operational military. We have a top line, and that top line is not expanded by the Spratt budget, and that means that the people who are retired, who have great affection for this country and have every right to be treated well by this Nation, also have another interest, and that interest is to see that the people who are in the arena today, in the battlefield today, get every single thing that they can possibly have focused on that battlefield and have those resources focused on that battlefield.”