Defense Quotes - Page 23

Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

We got victims out there that are getting shot four and five times, point blank range. That's not self-defense. You're not going to tell me that's self-defense.

National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said this week there's a good chance we never get bin Laden. bin Laden! We couldn't even get O.J.!

Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'

In high school, I was just a guy who ran the court and played defense. Now I have the whole package.

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense was an appeal to the authority of veterans who supported him-one of whom has now been revealed to have received a medal he doesn't deserve. This doesn't prove the Kerry detractors were right, but it certainly doesn't weaken their case.

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government.

Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

For upon all the glory shall be a defense

Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.

One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country.

[Donald Trump] attitude towards our longest defense alliance and NATO, that we should somehow walk away from it.

... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.

The domestic war against "terrorists" [code for young protesters] provides new opportunities for major defense contractors and corporations who are becoming more a part of our domestic lives.

I wouldn't say it's a split. It's a difference of emphasis. It does exist between, I would say, the State Department and the Defense Department.

Now, I have to - in my defense, I have the say that general knowledge of the deadly nature of cigarettes was not primarily in my mind and nor was it on these poor cowboys, who - many of whom who've died of emphysema since we were shooting.

Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.

When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.

We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.