Defense Quotes

Whatever I can do to help our team, whether it's defense or offense, I'm going to do it.

It's just really exciting to have the ball in my hands. Not just on defense but to make plays on special teams also.

It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.

Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.

The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.

The best defense is a good story.

The souls now incarnating are power souls. It is a dark age. To incarnate now one needs psychic self-defense.

But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

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

No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.

We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.

The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.

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

When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.

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.

The domestic war against "terrorists" [code for young protesters] provides new opportunities for major defense contractors and corporations who are becoming more a part of our domestic lives.

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.

We will do everything in our power to protect our allies, South Korea and Japan, including installing even more missile defense.

... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.

[Donald Trump] attitude towards our longest defense alliance and NATO, that we should somehow walk away from it.

I want to reassure our allies in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere that we have mutual defense treaties and we will honor them.

I want a strong military. But I do not believe, among other things, that without an audit, we should be throwing tens of billions of dollars more into the Department of Defense.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country.

For upon all the glory shall be a defense

Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.

President-elect John F.Kennedy said to Robert McNamara that there's no school for presidents, or, for that matter, for secretaries of defense.

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

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

Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said this week there's a good chance we never get bin Laden. bin Laden! We couldn't even get O.J.!

I don't want to sound arrogant, but the defense might shut me down on one or two out of five plays, but I'll make them pay eventually.

We got victims out there that are getting shot four and five times, point blank range. That's not self-defense. You're not going to tell me that's self-defense.

Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

The anti-tax-cut, soft-on-defense, big-spending Democrats will take the Democratic Party to the edge and maybe over.

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

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.

[The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is chosen and not commanded.

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.