Defense Quotes

A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

We are not getting rid of carriers any time soon. This is both because of their utility and also because of their role in Navy culture and in the defense-industrial complex. It is an academic debate.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

My peers are all in sensitive jobs - at the C.I.A., the National Security Council, working for the Department of Defense. They can't stand up for me in public.

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.

Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

Great defense consists of 3 R's: read, react, and rotate.

Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

Truth is its own defense.

As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match -- the Gospel, together.

I really like defensive players. I've never played defense so I often wonder how they think.

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

Believe, it is our best defense.

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.

I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark Arts. I mean, seriously, who would answer an ad for this job?

I was no suffragette, but I was pretty sure the he-can’t-control-himself defense was a big, stinky load of horseshit.

I don't judge the character at all. It's a bit like being someone's defense lawyer - you have to believe in their innocence in order to defend them.

You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves.

Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.

The US needs military/defense, economic, and social strategies. A medium-sized business, by contrast, is normally best off focusing its efforts on a single crucial objective.

I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.

To those who don't think defense is important, you'll get the best seat on the bench.

A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

I think that - that the disruptive nature, the tough talk on North Korea, the military deployments, sending the missile defense system to South Korea, I think these are all good things to have done.

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.

Ignorance is not a suitable defense

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

We don't need any troops abroad-they don't help our defense.

What we need is a strong defense, but right now there is zero chance of an invasion by another country and right now we have more firepower than all other countries put together.

Here's why nuclear defense makes sense. And I know something about this. A missile can take an airplane out of the air. A better missile can take a missile out of the air.

Hillary Clinton worked with Marian Wright Edelman in Children's Defense Fund. That's all you need to do know.

The prevent defense prevents victory.

The best defense for any group of people is what we do to defend other people.

A Gold Glove would be one of the things I would really cherish. When I was younger, I was always smaller. I couldn't hit, so I had to work on defense.

Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.

Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.

I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me.

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

We have put the Cold War behind us. We no longer count our divisions and our warheads. And I am Russia's first civilian defense minister in many centuries. We have become more pragmatic.

I'm the first player in history that doesn't want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.