Best 665 quotes in «defense quotes» category

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

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

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

I suspect that Donald Trump is going to be very tough with those countries that don't spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. He will ask them why should we allow a free-ride policy.

I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.

I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

I think of customer service as an offense and not a defense

I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.

I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

I think we will have to spend more on defense, for infrastructure, for extension of the broadband network and also for domestic security.

...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

It is pretty tough for a goalie when you look at it. You're always the last line of defense. If you let a goal in, you can't go to the bench and hide between the guys or anything

It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His almighty power is engaged for our defense and help in all of our straits and temptations.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

I think the more aggressive I am on defense helps me to get easier buckets and get in a good grove.

It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to treatment out of spontaneous insight - typically, in our experience they come to their recognition scenes through a buildup of crises that crash through their almost impenetrable defense systems. They are forced to seek help; and when they don't, they perish miserably.

It's only by investing properly in our defense that we can ensure we're properly equipped to face our shared challenges together.

It is important that both Japan and the United States continue to invest very heavily in the alliance to build up our defense.

It's a game of making great pitches at the right time, being opportunistic by getting a run at the right time and playing good defense.

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.

I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

I was no suffragette, but I was pretty sure the he-can’t-control-himself defense was a big, stinky load of horseshit.

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.

It would have been a great story if Brooks had went out there and scored 21 points, ... That would have been great theater. But the reality of that is very difficult, as we know, in this league for any QB when defense is playing good. And the Ravens played well.

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

I will not speak to Vladimir Putin personally until we've rebuilt the 6th Fleet a little bit right under his nose; rebuilt the missile defense program in Poland right under his nose; and conducted a few military exercises in the Baltic states.

J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better.

I wouldn't say it's a split. It's a difference of emphasis. It does exist between, I would say, the State Department and the Defense Department.

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.

Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.

[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.