Defense Quotes

I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

Every good thing great and small needs defense

The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.

Anne Arundel County has become the world's epicenter of military intelligence and defense-related information technology.

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

With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.

Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.

[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.

'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.

Whenever we play the Twins, Torii Hunter has a major impact on defense. He tells the left fielder and the right fielder to take the day off and he covers the whole outfield.

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.

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn ran the defense intelligence agency from 2012 to 2014. He served as a top national intelligence adviser to General Stanley McChrystal in Iraq.

Vitamin C is a very effective immune booster and probably the safest first line of defense for infection.

When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.

All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

You may dream about turning it around as quickly as we did, but you wouldn't expect it to become reality, ... But we jelled quickly and got it done. We're a whole new defense compared to last year.

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.

Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.

I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.

Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.

I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.

If you vote against the Defense Authorization Act in the Senate, you would also veto it as president.

We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.

What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?

There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense he has against my words. He loves so wholly. It is his nature.

There are always things to improve on. I want to improve on my defense, and you can never be a perfect hitter. I want to focus on just playing more and being able to improve on all parts of my game.

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty.

To me, polls are like approval ratings for presidents are like an offensive line, right. And if an offensive line is weak, that means the defense is empowered and emboldened.

I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.

It's fun to play defense. It's fun to watch the opponent sweat on offense, start complaining to the officials, and eventually be taken out of the game because he's making so many offensive mistakes

Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

The Patriot Act makes a mockery of the Sixth Amendment, which protects your right to a speedy and public trial, and your right to the assistance of counsel for your defense.

We need to have more taxes, not less, and we need the taxes we have, certainly, to provide services - for defense and education and health care. We should not cut money here in order to cut taxes.

To me, defense is a mental attitude…it takes will and heart to go out there and lock your man up.

I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange.

How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

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.

Fighting for ourselves means manufacturing our own weapons of self-defense.

...you can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.

The promise to share the burden of our defense has gone unfulfilled for too many for too long, and it erodes the very foundation of NATO.

Donald Trump made it clear in that very interview that America will stand by our allies. We will uphold up our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO.

In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected.

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.

I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal.

Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor.

Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility.

In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.