Defense Quotes - Page 20

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.

Ignorance is not a suitable defense

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

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

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.

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

A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

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

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

Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.

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

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

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

Truth is its own defense.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.

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

Believe, it is our best defense.

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