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I am a deficit hawk.

Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like 'create' or even 'made.' They necessitate a Creator and a Maker. Neither are you supposed to let out that the essence of atheism is to believe that nothing created everything, because it's unthinking.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats.

I think Hillary is going to be more hawkish perhaps than Obama. Perhaps more hawkish than Trump. Trump, though, is really a windshield wiper. He says one thing that makes sense and then says something that doesn't make sense.

Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.

We cannot allow anything that's called 'national defense' to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don't overspend and say, 'Oh, that's defense,' when perhaps it isn't.

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.