Defense Quotes - Page 18

• In Congress, while the House’s proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can’t equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Cutting, House, Pay

  "Honor Sacrifice by Supporting Vets" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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• There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.

  Robert Griffin III

  Football, Blow, People

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• In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Arms, Violence, Violation

  Thomas Jefferson (1950). “The papers of Thomas Jefferson”

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• I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.

  Magic Johnson

  College, Nba, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

  Quincy Jones

  Art, Military, Emotional

  "Does U.S. Need A Culture Czar?". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 16, 2009.

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• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Football

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• The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.

  Bill Maher

  Next Week, Want, Lasts

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• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

  Malcolm X

  Freedom, Real, Action

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• The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

  David Mamet

  Constitution, Individual, Qualified

  "David Mamet On Gun Control: Playwright Defends Private Ownership, And More Arts News" by Katherine Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Thinking, Clients, Guilty

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• If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

  George McGovern

  Thinking, Iran, Iraq

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• God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

  Joyce Meyer

  Prayer, Lines, Firsts

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• You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

  Michael Moore

  Self, Strict, Humans

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• 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.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Police, Environment, Harm

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• We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Commitment, Responsibility

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

  Barack Obama

  Marriage, Gay, Politics

  "Barack Obama in His Own Words". Book edited by Lisa Rogak, 2007.

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• In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Organization, Justice, Support

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• In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

  George Orwell

  Time, Writing, Political Language

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

  Rand Paul

  Military, Important, Waste

  "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.

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• If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Rights, Issues

  "Sen. Rand Paul's Speech at Howard University". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

  Rand Paul

  Religious, Strong, Rights

  "Sen. Rand Paul's Speech at Howard University". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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• If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

  Ron Paul

  Running, Strong, Hard Work

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• There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.

  Ron Paul

  Strong, War, Believe

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• When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

  Christine Pelosi

  San Francisco, Advice, Trying

  "Christine Pelosi's boot camp trains future politicians to avoid the campaign minefield" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2008.

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• I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Boys, Competition

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