Defense Quotes

From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

If a war be undertaken... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

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

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.