Defense Quotes - Page 25

A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims." That is not a universal judgment today.

Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine.

As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?

There has never been a great 'silent' defense

When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world

Fortunately, our immune system can be improved and empowered to such a point that not only can the harmful microbes be halted and the chemicals detoxified, but also a "stress defense shield" may be built up, which can even drive off the effects of daily stress.

I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense.

In Cookie's defense, it was raining wildcats and rabid dogs.

Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the "unknown knowns" in international security. Perhaps, however, there also exists a genuine but publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from the grave and feasting upon the entrails of the living.

If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize the Syria campaign.

there's no defense except all the errors made

Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.

When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.

I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on.

I will not speak to Vladimir Putin personally until we've rebuilt the 6th Fleet a little bit right under his nose; rebuilt the missile defense program in Poland right under his nose; and conducted a few military exercises in the Baltic states.