Best 665 quotes in «defense quotes» category

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

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.

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 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 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 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'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 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.

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.

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

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

Ignorance is not a suitable defense

I got into cooking out of self-defense.

I haven't played defense in a couple years.

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

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.

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.

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

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

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.

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

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

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

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

Innocence is its own defense.

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

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

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

Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.

In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

I play defense and I'm a unique defender because I'm tall and slim but I also have great speed.

In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level

I read in self-defense.

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.