Political Quotes

“My friend makes a great point, and there is one other thing that we have done for every union worker and every nonunion worker in this country, and it was done by Presidents Reagan and Bush, and that is that we built a military that was strong enough. Besides providing those millions of jobs, one million of which have been cut by the Clinton administration, but besides providing those jobs, we fielded a force, a military force, which, since 1991, has been cut roughly in half, but which was so strong in 1990 and 1991, that when we took on Saddam Hussein in the sands of the Middle East, even though we sent over, in my understanding, 40,000 body bags, that is where they put the bodies of the dead Americans after they have been killed in battle, we sent over 40,000 empty body bags, only a very few Americans came back in those bags because we were so strong that we won overwhelmingly without many casualties. If we had to fight that war today, having cut the Army from 18 to 10 divisions, our air power from 24 air wings to only 13, and our navy ships from 546 ships to about 333 ships, we could not win overwhelmingly. We would lose more Americans.”