Defense Quotes - Page 22

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

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

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.

That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American, we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, if we’ve progressed as a society, then you don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

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.

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

[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.

Never question the sanity of a woman who can render you defenseless with a look.

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

I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.

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

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

There will always be people who have power over me, who can destroy my spirit and drain my soul. My best defense is to behave as if I have no soul, to act as if my spirit has already been crushed. Perhaps then, I will be left alone or ignored.

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

Every good thing great and small needs defense

He was a superb military officer but he was also an extraordinarily gifted politician. That he was an unusually open, honest and no-nonsense politician did not make him unsuited for the profession, only uncommon. In uniform and in politics Barry's purpose was always the defense of freedom. And nobody before or since managed the task more ably or more colorfully than Barry Goldwater.

The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it?an additional tactic in this strategy of defense?is to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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