Best 665 quotes in «defense quotes» category

I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.

I don't have to run from none of these fighters. If I want to keep my defense tight and break em' down I can.

I do not believe there are any new objections to be discovered to the truth of Christianity. Men may argue ingeniously against our faith, but what can they say in defense of their own?

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

I don't ever want it to be a question whether I'm a Pro Bowl-caliber player, I believe I'm the best at what I do, and it's my responsibility to play like I'm capable of playing and help this defense as much as possible.

I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.

I don’t like pitchers who walk hitters. It puts pressure on your defense. The less walks you have, the better your chances of getting through innings. More walks lead to overworking your bullpen, sometimes just by having to get somebody up, just in case.

I don't think a worship of nature is necessary to mount a really strong defense of the environment.

I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense.

I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secretary of defense what he proposes to do to amend that sorry record.

I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.

If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

If it doesn't make sense, you must find for the defense.

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

If the bureaucracy is not checked, it will tend to build, in the name of peace, a defense against every conceivable contingency - so much 'security' that 'the secured' are without resources - helpless and hopeless.

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

If you ask anybody at Cyber Command or look at any of the job listings for openings for their positions, you'll see that the one thing they don't prioritize is computer network defense. It's all about computer network attack and computer network exploitation at Cyber Command.

If you can take pride in what you're doing on defense, it's going to be pretty hard for that offensive opponent to go by you or make a shot over you.

If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.

If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable.

If you read history, right, if you read [Mikhail] Gorbachev's memoirs, Gorbachev memoirs said the key thing in winning the Cold War was our insistence on nuclear defense, because they knew they couldn't match us.

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

Ignorance is not a suitable defense

I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.

I got into cooking out of self-defense.

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

I haven't played defense in a couple years.

I like to think of myself as the running LT. I like to run up the middle and wear defenses down. It's more exciting in between the tackles.

Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.

I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.

In addition, we will improve the Department of Defense's cyber capabilities. A new threat, a new problem, very expensive, and we're not doing very well with cyber.

I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.

In Cookie's defense, it was raining wildcats and rabid dogs.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.

I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.

In high school, I was just a guy who ran the court and played defense. Now I have the whole package.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.

In my lame pescetarian defense, it's very hard to be a girl and say you won't eat something. Refuse one plate of bacon-wrapped pork rinds and you're anorexic. Accept them and you're on the Atkins. Excuse yourself to go to the bathroom and you're bulimic. Best to keep perfectly still and bring an IV of fluids with you to dinner.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Innocence is its own defense.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.