Defense Quotes - Page 17

• If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Jobs, People

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• For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

  James Brady

  Home, Gun Control, Police

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• As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qaida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 9/11 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense.

  John O. Brennan

  Self, Law, Use

  "The Efficacy and Ethics of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy". John O. Brennan's address at the Wilson Center, www.wilsoncenter.org. April 30, 2012.

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

  Peter Brimelow

  Teacher, Mean, Boss

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• This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Errors, Land, Humanity

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1896, in 'The First Battle. A Story of the Campaign of 1896' (1896) vol. 1, ch. 10

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• At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

  Kobe Bryant

  Games, Trying, Stuff

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• The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Freedom, Government, Democracy

  "WindFall: The End of the Affair". Book by William F. Buckley Jr., 1992.

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• People use irony as a defense mechanism.

  David Byrne

  People, Use, Irony

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• I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

  Herman Cain

  Believe, Traditional, I Believe

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• I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

  Dick Cheney

  Years, White, Judging

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• We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

  Dick Cheney

  Iran, Order, Korea

  "Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 28, 2009.

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• The only defensible war is a war of defense.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Peace, War, Antiwar

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• One of the main reasons we ought to re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to constructive cooperation... He appointed Republican secretaries of defense, the Army and transportation. He appointed a vice president who ran against him in 2008.

  William J. Clinton

  Army, America, President

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

  Bryan Cranston

  Littles, Craziness, Craziness Of Life

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 2, 2003.

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• If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

  Mitch Daniels

  Military, Years, Financial

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

  Moshe Dayan

  Fog, Lasts, Cabinets

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• If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Believe, Care, Guilty

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• I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Criminals, Roles, Students

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• I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.

  Tony Dungy

  Team, Practice, Games

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• I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.

  Kevin Durant

  Team, Player, Winning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

  Steve Forbes

  World, Pearls, Today

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Ron Fournier

  Suffering, President, Fool

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• Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

  Matthew Fox

  Women, Angel, Healing

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• So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Fighting, Winning

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• We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Thank You, Gratitude, Veterans Day

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