229 Quotes on Defense

• Roses may be beautiful, but they still have thorns to defend themselves

  Author: Samantha Smith

• Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

  Author: Barry Zito

• We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

  Author: Steve Yzerman

• The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

  Author: Tennessee Williams

• My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

  Author: Eric Williams

• When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game, I have the experience to go out there and help us win.

  Author: Sue Wicks

• Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.

  Author: Abraham Whipple

• I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.

  Author: Lynn Westmoreland

• Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

  Author: Ida Wells

• 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.

  Author: George Washington

• Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.

  Author: Mark Warner

• New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

  Author: James Walsh

• Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.

  Author: Robert Walpole

• The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

  Author: George Wald

• All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

  Author: George Wald

• And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

  Author: George Wald

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

  Author: George Wald

• Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.

  Author: David Vitter

• Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.

  Author: Charles Vest

• Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

  Author: Gene Tunney

• Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

  Author: Bennie Thompson

• If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.

  Author: William Thomas

• The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run the offense. You should still be concerned on the offense side of the ball.

  Author: Isaiah Thomas

• It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.

  Author: Craig Thomas

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

  Author: James Talent

• I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

  Author: Stuart Symington

• So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.

  Author: Michael Strahan

• There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.

  Author: Ted Stevens

• Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do.

  Author: Kenneth Starr

• It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops.

  Author: Pete Stark

• We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers.

  Author: John Spratt

• I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.

  Author: John Spratt

• If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

  Author: Arlen Specter

• All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

  Author: Sonia Sotomayor

• The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

  Author: Joseph Sobran

• Defense is superior to opulence.

  Author: Adam Smith

• Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

  Author: Adam Smith

• During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.

  Author: Bill Shuster

• Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

  Author: Garry Shandling

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

  Author: Charles Schumer

• I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

  Author: Pat Schroeder

• As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

  Author: Jack Scalia

• Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

  Author: Richard Scaife

• In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

  Author: Sallust

• Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

  Author: Salman Rushdie

• The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

  Author: Mitt Romney

• Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

  Author: Geraldo Rivera

• I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  Author: Robert Redford

• Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• I think we should be looking at the defense and seeing where we can actually be more efficient because I think that, you know, sometimes during the contracting process, we lose some efficiencies in that regard.

  Author: Ben Quayle

• Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

  Author: Lawrence Powell

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

  Author: Colin Powell

• The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

  Author: Jon Porter

• One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.

  Author: John Poindexter

• Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.

  Author: Charles Pinckney

• I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.

  Author: Paul Pierce

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

  Author: Shimon Peres

• Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

  Author: Lester Pearson

• No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.

  Author: Lester Pearson

• There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.

  Author: Ron Paul

• The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

  Author: George Pataki

• The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

  Author: Alan Parsons

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

  Author: Rafael Palmeiro

• But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.

  Author: Rafael Palmeiro

• A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

  Author: Frank Oz

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

  Author: George Orwell

• 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.

  Author: Solomon Ortiz

• 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.

  Author: Barack Obama

• If a war be undertaken... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

  Author: Charles Norton

• That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

  Author: Chester Nimitz

• But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

  Author: Don Nickles

• I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.

  Author: Don Nickles

• If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.

  Author: Don Nickles

• There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

  Author: Bill Nelson

• We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.

  Author: Steve Nash

• And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

  Author: Janet Napolitano

• That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

  Author: Luc Montagnier

• The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.

  Author: James Monroe

• Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

  Author: Alice Miller

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

  Author: Christopher Meloni

• Many defense experts have predicted that we face no greater threat from a single country than from Iran.

  Author: Cathy McMorris

• A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

  Author: Mignon McLaughlin

• Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

  Author: Willie Mays

• But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

  Author: Abraham Maslow

• We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.

  Author: Joshua Marshall

• There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.

  Author: Dan Marino

• I always root for the defense.

  Author: Wellington Mara

• I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history.

  Author: Joe Manchin III

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

  Author: Malcolm Malcolm X

• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

  Author: Malcolm Malcolm X

• The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.

  Author: Bill Maher

• A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

  Author: James Madison

• The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

  Author: James Madison

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

  Author: John Madden

• What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

  Author: Catharine MacKinnon

• You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.

  Author: Stephen Lynch

• There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

  Author: Edward Lucas

• Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• 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.

  Author: Joe Lieberman

• We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.

  Author: Joe Lieberman

• While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

  Author: John Lewis

• A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

  Author: Lawrence Lessig

• Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.

  Author: Bill Laimbeer

• These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

  Author: Bill Kristol

• All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

  Author: Bill Kristol

• The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

  Author: David Korten

• A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

• The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.

  Author: Sue Kelly

• Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.

  Author: Frank Kellogg

• Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

  Author: Herman Kahn

• It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

  Author: Herman Kahn

• Today, Jewish defense is an accepted thing.

  Author: Meir Kahane

• Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.

  Author: Louis Johnson

• This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.

  Author: Louis Johnson

• That's how you win - pitching and defense.

  Author: Derek Jeter

• I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.

  Author: Peter Jennings

• For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.

  Author: Michael Jeffery

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

  Author: Helen Jackson

• National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

  Author: Kim Il

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

  Author: Jon Huntsman, Jr.

• The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.

  Author: Jane Hull

• That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

  Author: Thomas Hobbes

• Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

  Author: Christopher Hitchens

• There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

  Author: Thomas Higginson

• It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

  Author: John Hersey

• Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

  Author: Patrick Henry

• The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

  Author: Robin Hayes

• As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.

  Author: Steven Hatfill

• As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today - our nation will remain free and strong.

  Author: Doc Hastings

• In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

  Author: Alan Hansen

• Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.

  Author: Chuck Hagel

• Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

  Author: Henry Grunwald

• We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.

  Author: Bob Graham

• Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  Author: Barry Goldwater

• I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  Author: Barry Goldwater

• It is impossible to have a public trial if you can't guarantee the safety of witnesses, judges or defense counsel.

  Author: Richard Goldstone

• America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

  Author: Rudy Giuliani

• Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low.

  Author: Paul Gillmor

• I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

  Author: Jim Garrison

• It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

  Author: Joe Garagiola

• So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

  Author: Neil Gaiman

• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  Author: Gary Francione

• Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

  Author: Matthew Fox

• Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

  Author: Steve Forbes

• Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

  Author: Randy Forbes

• The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day.

  Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

• It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points.

  Author: Nick Ferguson

• It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.

  Author: Kevin Eubanks

• The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

  Author: Dwight Eisenhower

• Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.

  Author: John Edward

• These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation.

  Author: Dick Durbin

• Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

  Author: Christopher Dodd

• I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

  Author: Edward Dmytryk

• Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

  Author: Norm Dicks

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

  Author: Moshe Dayan

• Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.

  Author: Mark Davis

• 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.'

  Author: Mitch Daniels

• But 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.'

  Author: Mitch Daniels

• The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.

  Author: Catherine Crier

• As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

  Author: Tim Conway

• If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.

  Author: Johnnie Cochran

• A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

  Author: Irvin Cobb

• Democrats are committed to mapping a new direction in Iraq, and we will work with the President and the new Defense Secretary to ensure that the will of the American people guides our future actions.

  Author: Jim Clyburn

• Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

  Author: Marcus Cicero

• The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

  Author: Winston Churchill

• Truth is the best defense.

  Author: Ward Churchill

• Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

  Author: Chris Chocola

• National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

  Author: Jacques Chirac

• The only defensible war is a war of defense.

  Author: Gilbert Chesterton

• The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

  Author: Michael Chertoff

• A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

  Author: Dick Cheney

• Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

  Author: Saxby Chambliss

• The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.

  Author: Saxby Chambliss

• In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

  Author: Vinton Cerf

• When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.

  Author: Rene Cassin

• From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.

  Author: Russ Carnahan

• I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.

  Author: Rod Carew

• 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.

  Author: Ben Campbell

• The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

  Author: Ben Campbell

• Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.

  Author: Stephen Cambone

• The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.

  Author: Steve Buyer

• War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

  Author: Smedley Butler

• There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

  Author: Smedley Butler

• Education is the cheap defense of nations.

  Author: Edmund Burke

• One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

  Author: William Buckley, Jr.

• This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

  Author: William Bryan

• Humor is just another defense against the universe.

  Author: Mel Brooks

• Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

  Author: Peter Brimelow

• Right is its own defense.

  Author: Bertolt Brecht

• When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'

  Author: John Breaux

• For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

  Author: James Brady

• If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.

  Author: Neal Boortz

• You have to play defense, that's how you win.

  Author: Peter Bondra

• I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.

  Author: Tommy Bond

• The last time I spoke with Robert was back in May. When his wife was murdered, I talked to several radio stations in defense of him because I know how Bobby Blake really is, and as far as I'm concerned, there's no murder in his heart.

  Author: Tommy Bond

• The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.

  Author: Kit Bond

• The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

  Author: W. Bois

• The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.

  Author: William Blackstone

• The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

  Author: Charles Bass

• Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.

  Author: Stanley Baldwin

• Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

  Author: Stanley Baldwin

• I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.

  Author: Dusty Baker

• They had been monitoring the site for a very long time, and at times, I received over 100 hits from the Department of Defense on the website, so I wasn't the slightest bit surprised.

  Author: Sherman Austin

• Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

  Author: Red Auerbach

• When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.

  Author: Aldrich Ames

• The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

  Author: Charles Allen

• A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

  Author: Louisa Alcott

• The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

  Author: Bashar al-Assad

• For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

  Author: Aeschylus

• Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

  Author: Joseph Addison

• The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

  Author: Floyd Abrams

• Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

  Author: John Abizaid

• The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

  Author: Edward Abbey

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