Defense Quotes

What would you do differently as defense secretary to compensate for this record in which the greatest military in the world, as we are constantly told, doesn't get the job done?

Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.

My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

You can never advance the ball on defense.

You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

I still have things to learn, especially on defense.

We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly jaded in our perception of what is really around us.

We're in a very Orwellian situation where when we - we've slashed defense. And we've raised taxes. And we consider $600 billion annual deficit success because it's not $1 trillion.

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.

The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.

Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.

You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

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

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom.

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.

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

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

Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.

It's just a huge boost for us to have one extra playmaker on our defense. He makes so many impact plays and changes the game a lot.

We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.

The balls definitely carry a lot more. There should be some more home runs this year. Some of the guys on the team will have more home runs. On defense we'll have to cover some more ground.

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

My first line of defense against reality is called sleep.

It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism.

Obviously defense is my strength, but I still need to improve on that. I need to improve on offense. Every part.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

The Russians don't make determinations about what our defense posture is.

For my qualifying concert, Helmut Walcha would not coach Charles-Marie Widor or any American compositions. In his defense, his forte was Germanic composers, and his forte was really a fortissimo!

..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever. It was filling the void, because that was easier than letting go.

The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

We know about the Detroit offense with Calvin Johnson, the best receiver in the game. If this defense continues to play at this pace, they may have something to say about the NFC North.

We know our job. We are grinders and we are physical and we need to make their (defense) look back over their shoulders.

Notre Dame had a ... sorta... statistical defense.

I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values.

I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.