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   One thing is clear: our defense budget has been cut too far, and too
fast. In fact, this administration had set us on a path that would have
ended with America spending about as much of our gross national product on
defense as we were when Pearl Harbor was attacked. But the good news is
that this year this Congress refused to go along. We rejected the policies
that would lead us back to a hollow military. We kept the faith. We
increased spending on defense. 
    
   For the demands of freedom require us to modernize our forces,to
maintain our technological edge, and to ensure that America remains the
world's one and only superpower. We will never apologize for that. Our goal
is not just to be strong enough to turn back a threat. We must be so
strong no one ever again is even tempted to threaten us, at all.