Defense Quotes - Page 39

• If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan

  Bill Delahunt

  Rights, Uzbekistan, Decision

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• A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Needs, Serious, Goofy

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.167, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Refresh your commitment today to test everything by the Word of God. The surest defense against spiritual deception is knowledge of spiritual truth.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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• The best defense against logic is ignorance.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ignorance, Math, Logic

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• Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

  Monica Raymund

  Lying, Coping Mechanisms, Survival

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• Invincibility is in oneself, and vulnerability is in the opponent. Invincibility is a matter of defense, vulnerability is a matter of attack. Therefore skillful warriors are able to be invincible, but they cannot cause opponents to be vulnerable. That is why it is said that victory is discerned and not manufactured.

  Sun Tzu

  Leadership, Sports, Warrior

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• In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Ideas, Analysis, Lasts

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• My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.

  Mike Tyson

  Style, Impetuous

  "'I was ferocious': Mike Tyson talks candidly about his darkest hour". www.today.com. November 12, 2013.

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• In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

  Moshe Dayan

  Should Have, Two, Roles

  Private conversation with Rami Tal (1976), as quoted in Associated Press report, May 11, 1997.

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• Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.

  Antonio Negri

  Punishment, Doe, Prison

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• Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Aesthetic

  Sarah Ruhl (2014). “100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater”, p.56, Macmillan

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• The way to balance the budget is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans pensions, while the states cut almost everything else. It would be tough but we could do it.

  Howard Dean

  Retirement, Moving, Cutting

  Interview with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 29, 2003.

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• Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not expire. It takes conscious work to undo them. Ironically, as long as we keep using defenses, we actually maintain the original force of the fear.

  David Richo

  Fear, Real, Long

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• From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.

  Russ Carnahan

  Important, Natural, Broads

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• Current levels of Pentagon spending may not be able to support current defense strategy. The answer to this problem is right before our eyes: cut the money and change the strategy. That would be acting in the name of a conception of national security that was truly strategic.

  William Hartung

  Eye, Cutting, Names

  "Military Strategy? Who Needs It?" by William Hartung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2015.

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• One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

  Henry James

  Henry James (2016). “The Aspern Papers: American Literature”, p.2, 谷月社

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• Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Blind, Aggressiveness

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.97, Princeton University Press

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• Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.

  James Taranto

  College, White, Disrespect

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• 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.

  James Taranto

  Veteran, Boat, Authority

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• A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality.

  Randy Wayne White

  Party, Ideas, Suffering

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• I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Effort, Easy

  Barack Obama's Statement on the Supercommittee, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 21, 2011.

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

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Military, Offensive

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• "For 46 years, we were engaged in a worldwide battle against communism". "During that time, there were countless heroes, who served in our nation's Armed Forces and played a critical role in America's triumph. These men and women, who sacrificed so much for so many, deserve to be awarded the Cold War Service Medal in recognized of their faithful service to their country and tireless defense of freedom around the world."

  Mary Landrieu

  Country, War, Hero

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

  Joe Lieberman

  Party, Cutting, Politics

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

  Homer

  Country, Fighting, Omen

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