Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low.

The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense.

What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the ecosystem but for our population... we should be saving our old-growth forests as a matter of national defense.

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.