Defense Quotes

I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on.

When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.

I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.

Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.

there's no defense except all the errors made

The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize the Syria campaign.

Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

I get a lot more confidence winning games playing defense than winning the run-and-gun game.

Donations to my legal defense fund really help, and I think keeping me motivated and spreading the message are also very important.

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

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

The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.

An Australian swimmer who failed to win a gold medal is blaming her loss on social media. In her defense, it is really hard to tweet when you're swimming.

The State of New York City says in defense you can use as much force as you feel like the person that is coming for you with. So if I'm wrong than the law is wrong. That's really the way I felt.

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.

Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.

No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.

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

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

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

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.

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world

There has never been a great 'silent' defense

The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts.

Defense is something I take pride in. I feel it's just as important as offense. They should have RBIs for defensive plays.

We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.

Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine.

We have to remember that our defense is not just a commitment of money, it is a commitment of will.

We propose to rebuild the key tools of missile defense starting with Navy cruisers that are the foundation of our missile defense capabilities in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

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 can only say this, a very, very important element of any country, but our country, and in my opinion, the single most important thing that a president can do is the defense of our country.

We can talk about Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security. We can talk about school, we can talk about everything. Defense is number one or we don't have a country.

We are going to repeal the Obama-Clinton defense sequester and we are going to rebuild the military of the United States which is very, sadly, depleted.

Using these new funds, I will ask my secretary of defense to propose a new defense budget to meet the following longtime goals.

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.

When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

What advertisers call brand loyalty is merely the consumer's defense against the need to waste energy differentiating among things that barely differ.

Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.

You have to be out there and have a mound presence. You have to be real aggressive and be real confident. You have to put the hitters on defense.