“It would be better for the country if the Pentagon and the military do...” — Mac Thornberry Quote

“It would be better for the country if the Pentagon and the military do not shut down at any point because the threats to the country do not shut down.”

“If the men and women who protect the country are to succeed in the missions they are assigned, we simply must invest more in defense.”

“I'm for experimentation. I'm for trying things. That's true whether we're talking about hardware or personnel issues. We need to try some things, because doing what we have always done because we've always done it that way doesn't work.”

“President Trump has made rebuilding our military strength one of his top priorities. More money is certainly required, but so is reform of the Pentagon and how it does business.”

“The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.”

“I worked at the Pentagon.”