Pentagon Quotes

• Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Reporters
  • Geraldo

• The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Social
  • Disease
  • Represent

• It was right after 9/11 and I decided to walk around the grounds of the Pentagon, because I had never been there. Out of nowhere comes this speeding camouflaged golf cart and this guy starts yelling at me, 'What do you think you're doing!' The guy wrote my name down and began to follow me before I got really scared and took off as fast as I could.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Guy
  • Names
  • Scared

• The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Time
  • World
  • Sad

• I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Country
  • Real
  • Business

• The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors.

  

  Walter Karp
  • Military
  • Special
  • Enormous

• I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol now and then and sit down with leaders of all kinds of companies.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Military
  • Leader
  • Company

• 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
  • Powerful
  • Military
  • Useless

• 9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people could attack the United States not from the outside, but from the inside. It was a sign that the United States, the most powerful country in the world, could watch the cathedral of capitalism at the Trade Center and the heart of its defense at the Pentagon be struck internally, not really across borders, so that borders don't matter anymore.

  

  Benjamin Barber
  • United States
  • Independence
  • Capitalism

• Current levels of Pentagon spending may not be able to support current defense strategy. The answer to this problem is right before our eyes: cut the money and change the strategy. That would be acting in the name of a conception of national security that was truly strategic.

  

  William Hartung
  • Support
  • Cutting
  • Strategy

• I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.

  

  Monica Lewinsky
  • House
  • Relationship
  • Certainly