Defense Quotes

‘Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.’ – Joseph Addison

‘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

‘Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.’ – Robert Greene

‘Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.’ – Barry Goldwater

‘We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.’ – Tennessee Williams

‘A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.’ – Robert E. Lee

‘A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost – and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.’ – Walter Cronkite

‘The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.’ – Brett Kavanaugh

‘Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘Humor is just another defense against the universe.’ – Mel Brooks

‘Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.’ – Mignon McLaughlin

‘Education is the cheap defense of nations.’ – Edmund Burke

‘Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.’ – Dan Quayle

‘There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.’ – Smedley Butler

‘Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.’ – Willie Mays

‘Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.’ – Sun Tzu

‘The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.’ – Winston Churchill

‘The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.’ – Edward Abbey

‘When we watch courtroom dramas, we tend to identify with the kindhearted defense attorney, but give us the power, and we become like hanging judges.’ – Jon Ronson

‘What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.’ – H. R. McMaster

‘But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.’ – Abraham Maslow

‘Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.’ – Charles L. Allen

‘Our growing national debt is a threat to our national defense and to our domestic priorities, including research and development, education, health care, and investments in our economic growth.’ – Seth Moulton

‘The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.’ – James Monroe

‘You want to keep the defense guessing.’ – Kyrie Irving

‘Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property.’ – Milton Friedman

‘A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.’ – James Madison

‘Shooters shoot. The worst thing a shooter can do is think. That’s the best defense out there.’ – Jamal Crawford

‘Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.’ – Ida B. Wells

‘Defense is superior to opulence.’ – Adam Smith

‘Truth is the best defense.’ – Ward Churchill

‘National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.’ – Kim Jong Il

‘There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.’ – Dan Marino

‘When things go wrong or don’t turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.’ – Blake Shelton

‘A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.’ – Louisa May Alcott

‘America’s commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view – a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.’ – Joe Biden

‘I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?’ – Robert Redford

‘Policy is no longer being written by politicians accountable to the American public. Instead, policies concerning the defense budget, deregulation, health care, public transportation, job training programs, and a host of other crucial areas are now largely written by lobbyists who represent mega corporations.’ – Henry Giroux

‘It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.’ – George Washington

‘Obviously, the Philippines or any regional state can never match Chinese defense spending, but we will have to develop minimum deterrence capabilities that allow us to resist and inflict sufficient retaliation if China continues to undermine Philippine territorial integrity.’ – Miriam Defensor-Santiago

‘I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.’ – Maya Angelou

‘It’s not enough to be a woman. You have to care about women’s issues. And women’s issues here in Iowa are that we have a strong economy. We have jobs that our sons and daughters can go off to someday. We have a great educational system. And women want strong national defense. We want to know that our families are going to be safe.’ – Joni Ernst

‘In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.’ – Christopher Meloni

‘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

‘That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.’ – Thomas Hobbes

‘It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.’ – John Muir

‘Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America’s space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.’ – Randy Forbes

‘Our nation is forever indebted to the brave men and women who laid it all on the line for our country, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our freedoms.’ – Raphael Warnock

‘The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.’ – Victor Davis Hanson

‘I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, ‘What does this person want?’ And I put up a defense mechanism. But I’ve always been that way.’ – Derek Jeter

‘The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.’ – Paul Watson

‘The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing ‘beloved’ individuals to continue their heinous behavior must be jettisoned from the bottom of our souls.’ – Mira Sorvino

‘People use irony as a defense mechanism.’ – David Byrne

‘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

‘The Iron Dome system is a proven way for Israel to defend its citizens from hostile threats and will advance missile defense technology for us and other allies.’ – Rob Portman

‘Yes, I think the ’96 Bulls are the greatest of all time. I think the 72-10 record speaks for itself and the fact that we were able to cap it off with a championship. What it boils down to is we had a dominant style, a dominant defense, and we were a very good offensive team. It was the way we dominated our opponents that separated ourselves.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.’ – Federica Mogherini

‘We should leave no stone unturned to protect and account for those who sacrifice so much in defense of everything this country stands for.’ – Ronny Jackson

‘Rock and roll music – the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.’ – Salman Rushdie

‘Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s brilliant ‘whiz kids’ tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.’ – Thomas Sowell

‘If we can’t find cuts in the defense budget, we’re not looking carefully enough.’ – Jon Huntsman, Jr.

‘How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program – and not explode the deficit and national debt?’ – Pat Buchanan

‘You have to play offense and defense without thinking, and react like you know what to do, but if you’re thinking of where to be and 1,000 other things you can lose focus. You’re trying to play hard, but you’re overthinking.’ – Mike D’Antoni

‘I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn’t be able to survive.’ – Garry Shandling

‘The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, ‘Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.” – Alan Dershowitz

‘If your cat’s up a tree, you call the fire department. If someone’s hurt, you call the fire department. If there’s a mudslide or your house is on fire, you call the fire department. They’re our first line of defense.’ – Lorne Greene

‘If it doen’t make sense, you should find for the defense.’ – Johnnie Cochran

‘The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.’ – William F. Buckley, Jr.

‘I’m just going out there to do my role, the same role – defense first – and then see how the ball turns out on the offensive end.’ – Kawhi Leonard

‘That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.’ – Chester W. Nimitz

‘I can distribute, I can lock up on defense.’ – Jrue Holiday

‘If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you’re only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don’t really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.’ – Neal Boortz

‘What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.’ – G. Edward Griffin

‘It’s very difficult to convince other countries that they shouldn’t pursue nuclear weapons programs if we ourselves are actively developing a component of a strategic defense system.’ – Steven Weinberg

‘The prosecution has an ethical duty to ensure not just that they get a conviction when the defendant is guilty, but also to ensure that they get it by means of fair trial, and that means a fair trial for the defense as well as the prosecution.’ – Marcia Clark

‘Sometimes, when things are going really well, I feel like I’ve already seen things – it’s the flashback feeling in a good way. Like I’m watching a rerun, because I’ve studied this defense and know what comes next. Now, that is a good feeling, when your mind is working fast because you’ve studied, and you realize, ‘I’ve seen this before.” – Colin Kaepernick

‘If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.’ – Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

‘When I moved to Cleveland, defense research was laying the foundations for the Internet. The Apollo program was just about to put a man on the moon – and it was Neil Armstrong, from right here in Ohio. The future felt limitless. But today, our government is broken.’ – Peter Thiel

‘I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that’s a completely different thing. I’ve written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.’ – Dinesh D’Souza

‘In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.’ – George Orwell

‘Connecticut’s first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.’ – Christopher Dodd

‘Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one’s own despised and unwanted feelings.’ – Alice Miller

‘Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it’s all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.’ – Doug Harvey

‘In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.’ – Sallust

‘I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.’ – Xavi

‘I like playmakers, man, if it’s a playmaker on defense or offense, just a guy who is going to put up some points, a guy who’s going to be able to change the game.’ – Chris Harris, Jr.

‘Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.’ – Saxby Chambliss

‘Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.’ – Bill Kristol

‘We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that’s when you know it’s game over.’ – Steve Yzerman

‘I take what the defense gives me, and I roll with it.’ – Karl-Anthony Towns

‘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

‘The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.’ – William Blackstone

‘The police and armed forces must prioritize safeguarding their lives, those of their companions and of honest citizens. The use of lethal force is authorized in self-defense or in defense of the lives of Salvadoreans.’ – Nayib Bukele

‘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

‘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

‘Right is its own defense.’ – Bertolt Brecht

‘Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.’ – Ken Salazar

‘Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.’ – Elyn Saks

‘Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget.’ – Peter Orszag

‘During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.’ – Bobbie Ann Mason

‘Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.’ – John Wooden

‘Every defense’s game plan is to take me away.’ – A. J. Green

‘From one week to the next, everything changes from who you’re playing to the defense’s scheme. You just try to build on the things that you did well and correct the things that you did poorly in the game; then, move forward from there and hopefully continue to get better and better and better as you move forward.’ – Matt Cassel

‘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

‘You’re talking about defense and calling games and blocking balls, I’m going to be right there with anybody.’ – Yadier Molina

‘The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘When you’re walking at the airport, you’re expected to smile at people because they know you… I find that tough. I’m only trying to protect myself. So I don’t take my eyes off the floor. People can take that as attitude. But it’s actually shyness. Yes, it is a bad habit. But it’s a defense mechanism.’ – Katrina Kaif

‘Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America’s global enemies sense a failure of will.’ – Ben Shapiro

‘The only defensible war is a war of defense.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘I’m all in favor of animal rights, but I’d like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense of basic human rights. If you’re a vegan or a vegetarian, you should care about the people who are picking your fruits and vegetables by hand.’ – Eric Schlosser

‘War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one’s country, is a collective crime.’ – Carlos Saavedra Lamas

‘I’ve been working on my defense and my inside game.’ – Ryan Garcia

‘I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.’ – George Lucas

‘I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.’ – Matthew McConaughey

‘After World War II, defending America in the modern world required new intelligence agencies, the unification of the armed services under a massive new Defense Department, and later the creation of new civilian organizations with some defense functions, such as NASA and the Energy Department.’ – Robert C. O’Brien

‘I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that’s my defense mechanism.’ – Sherri Shepherd

‘I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.’ – Peter Jennings

‘It’s football. The game hasn’t changed. There’s not tons of new concepts every year that go in. Offense is offense; it’s our job to move the ball, to score points, and keep our defense off the field.’ – Josh Allen

‘I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.’ – Rick Larsen

‘I used to spend a lot of time worrying about my defense.’ – Chipper Jones

‘I wasn’t going to play on defense in college.’ – Ezekiel Elliott

‘There’s no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.’ – Bill Nelson

‘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

‘You can lose a game with the kicking game faster than you can with offense and defense.’ – Mike Webster

‘The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘Perimeter defense may not matter if the enemy is inside the gates.’ – Robert Mueller

‘A lot of people think our standard is to be first in the SEC, be first in the country, first in our red zone, and run defense. We really don’t go by that motto. We go by, ‘Be the best Alabama defense there’s been.” – Kirby Smart

‘Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.’ – Robert Greene

‘Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is my favorite full-length ballet, Sergei Prokofiev’s breathtaking score a favorite composition of music. As a student of martial arts, I loved drawing my sword in defense of my Capulet kin.’ – Sascha Radetsky

‘As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.’ – Tim Conway

‘Without any doubt, I’m convinced that Hillary Clinton represents less individuality, flexibility for the states, a weaker national defense. And you know, for all those reasons, we ought to get behind Donald Trump.’ – Asa Hutchinson

‘I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.’ – Ben Nighthorse Campbell

‘There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.’ – Thomas Wentworth Higginson

‘Sometimes I see plays before anybody else sees it, so it kind of gives me an advantage on the defense already, and allows me to make plays for me and my teammates.’ – Ja Morant

‘I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he’s very cool and he’s very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I’d like to have an attorney like him.’ – Tommy Bond

‘Going back to the technical track of my life, note that I have been designing electronic products, both of the consumer and defense electronics variety, since Pluto was a pup. Many of these products broke new ground… creativity at work!’ – Ralph H. Baer

‘Americans, like many citizens of rich countries, take for granted the legal and regulatory system, the public schools, health care and social security for the elderly, roads, defense and diplomacy, and heavy investments by the state in research, particularly in medicine.’ – Angus Deaton

‘There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.’ – John Bolton

‘I’ll put the Packers’ best players on defense. It’s best for a team and good for its morale.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘There’s three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You’d no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.’ – Marv Levy

‘Homeland defense doesn’t generate any force requirements beyond having enough National Guard to save lives in natural disasters and to baby-sit nuclear power plants on Code Red days.’ – Thomas P.M. Barnett

‘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

‘The defense of the revolution is the defense of the people.’ – Sukarno

‘Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.’ – Norm Dicks

‘No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.’ – Lester B. Pearson

‘Defense is the thing we can control and bring every night. But I want to be great on both ends.’ – Rudy Gobert

‘The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.’ – Mazie Hirono

‘We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you’re game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.’ – Joshua Micah Marshall

‘Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.’ – Ted Cruz

‘War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.’ – Smedley Butler

‘Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.’ – Martin Heinrich

‘I dive on the floor for a loose ball, I take charges, I play great defense, or at least I try to play great defense, rebound, hustle plays, things that aren’t flashy and don’t show up on stat sheets.’ – Josh Hart

‘The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.’ – James Madison

‘Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.’ – Jordan Peterson

‘We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.’ – Henry Cuellar

‘That’s how you win – pitching and defense.’ – Derek Jeter

‘I just go out and try to do my job the best I can. If that’s playing defense as hard as I can or if that’s taking the opportunity to score I’ll do that, but it’s all about just winning the game no matter what happens.’ – George Hill

‘Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low.’ – Paul Gillmor

‘Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? – Patrick Henry’ – Patrick Henry

‘The work is intense. You have to calculate a great deal very quickly which requires football intelligence and real concentration. Part of my role is to shuttle between the defense and the attacking lines to make sure that the ball circulates well and quickly.’ – Sergio Busquets

‘Some of the issues with identity politics are critical moral issues. But we’ve got to show America that we don’t have a plan just on these so-called identity politics issues, but that we have a plan for the economy, that we know how to provide for a strong national defense.’ – Seth Moulton

‘In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense.’ – Chiang Kai-shek

‘Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.’ – Andrea Dworkin

‘Sometimes the funnier you are, the more vulnerable and scared you are underneath it all. So I think, for me, comedy was always a defense. It was a weapon so that you can’t hurt me.’ – Whitney Cummings

‘The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.’ – Bashar al-Assad

‘It’s a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.’ – John Hersey

‘A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold War was Johnson’s vehicle for expanding the Southern economy and making it, as he hoped, one of the more prosperous regions of the country.’ – Robert Dallek

‘When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.’ – Robert Kagan

‘Nobody talked about my defense or that I used to steal bases, too.’ – Tony Gwynn

‘Marcus Smart – I love playing against him because he takes defense as seriously as I do. I don’t flop, though. People are always telling me I need to learn to flop. Nah.’ – Jrue Holiday

‘The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

‘It’s nice to not have to rely on one person, whether it’s offense or defense, whatever it may be – get some production everywhere.’ – Trea Turner

‘I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.’ – Don Nickles

‘There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘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

‘Without Fred Taylor I would never have become the player I became. Because he was selling defense and I bought it.’ – John Havlicek

‘My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense – on the order of Mike Gibbons.’ – Gene Tunney

‘As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I’m sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I’m creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I’m not the only one down here in the muck – our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy.’ – Martha Beck

‘I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.’ – Edward Dmytryk

‘The biggest thing in terms of route running for me is knowing what the defense is in, knowing the coverage. Once you know the coverage, now you can start manipulating the defense. You can start to kind of trick them in where you’re going to go and where you want to get open.’ – Travis Kelce

‘Before I was a prosecutor, I was a defense attorney. I took a cut in pay because I wanted to stand up for the victims.’ – Marcia Clark

‘You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.’ – Stephen F. Lynch

‘The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.’ – Joseph Sobran

‘In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.’ – Annie Jacobsen

‘Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I’ll read C. Fred Bergsten’s defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It’s embarrassing to admit.’ – Bono

‘Our pride is tied up in being right. We tend to favor data that confirm our beliefs, so we don’t see alternatives. Too often, leaders practice defense routines that become self-reinforcing.’ – Nina Easton

‘In politics as in sports, the best defense is a good offense.’ – Charlie Kirk

‘Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation’s immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.’ – Chris Chocola

‘The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.’ – Stanley Baldwin

‘I’ve never played, on the field, any other position besides quarterback. Never been on a special team. Never been on defense.’ – Peyton Manning

‘My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it. That’s how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.’ – Judd Apatow

‘I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history.’ – Joe Manchin

‘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

‘Severe weather can come at any time, and millions of people are impacted by storms each year. Truly, the best defense against severe weather is for families to create an emergency plan, practice that plan, and always stay alert and ready.’ – Lucy McBath

‘Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can’t resolve the problem of women’s pantyhose. There’s no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.’ – Mikhail Gorbachev

‘I spent almost 11 years at university. I have three degrees. I was a nutritional scientist for the Department of National Defense, and then I spent the next 20 years studying it and writing about it.’ – Harley Pasternak

‘Ronald Reagan’s vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.’ – David Vitter

‘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.’ – Hank Haney

‘Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.’ – Frank B. Kellogg

‘The defendant wants to hide the truth because he’s generally guilty. The defense attorney’s job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.’ – Alan Dershowitz

‘Today, Jewish defense is an accepted thing.’ – Meir Kahane

‘Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.’ – Stanley Baldwin

‘We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense.’ – John O. Brennan

‘I think individually, Al Horford is very special, very unique. He’s a guy that can kind of be the backbone of the defense.’ – Mike Budenholzer

‘I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.’ – Barry Goldwater

‘I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.’ – Kamala Harris

‘All of our intelligence agencies, our Department of Defense, are all working to meet this threat. But it’s a fast moving world; it’s a place where offense is easier than defense, and keeping up with the next innovation in cyber-warfare is an enormous challenge.’ – Mike Pompeo

‘Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.’ – Bennie Thompson

‘Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.’ – Robert Walpole

‘What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence – a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.’ – Catharine MacKinnon

‘I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you’re in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.’ – Andy Dick

‘The aims of life are the best defense against death.’ – Primo Levi

‘Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.’ – Quincy Jones

‘Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.’ – Adam Smith

‘Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.’ – Red Auerbach

‘My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.’ – John W. Vessey, Jr.

‘Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.’ – Henry Grunwald

‘The Defense Department’s plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.’ – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

‘Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.’ – Lawrence Clark Powell

‘National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.’ – Jacques Chirac

‘The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.’ – Donald Rumsfeld

‘I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.’ – Rod Carew

‘A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.’ – Dick Cheney

‘Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.’ – Stanley Baldwin

‘I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.’ – Joe Lieberman

‘If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.’ – Arlen Specter

‘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

‘It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.’ – Chuck Schumer

‘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

‘There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.’ – Ted Stevens

‘Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.’ – Christopher Bond

‘We need a defense budget that’s big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.’ – Jim Talent

‘Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.’ – Chuck Hagel

‘I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.’ – Chuck Schumer

‘When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.’ – Patricia Schroeder

‘It is being alleged that the Federal Government is ‘cutting’ spending. In fact, we are not ‘cutting’ anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.’ – Craig L. Thomas

‘We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.’ – Joe Lieberman

‘Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.’ – Mark Warner

‘The backbone of our nation’s domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.’ – Saxby Chambliss

‘If we don’t start playing better on defense, it’s going to be hard. We can’t just sit there and win shootouts.’ – William Thomas

‘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

‘My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.’ – Eric Williams

‘We’ve been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we’ve been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we’ve been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.’ – Steve Nash

‘A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.’ – Frank Oz

‘There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.’ – Helen Hunt Jackson

‘Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.’ – John Edward

‘I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series – pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.’ – Dusty Baker

‘Big league defense is going to get outs most times.’ – Barry Zito

‘All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.’ – Bill Kristol

‘The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise – and to the best in benefits and medical care.’ – Sue Kelly

‘It is time we had a defense budget that lives within its means, accounts for what is truly required in Iraq and provides the best possible support for all our troops.’ – Pete Stark

‘I always root for the defense.’ – Wellington Mara

‘It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.’ – Herman Kahn

‘Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.’ – Herman Kahn

‘Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.’ – Jack Scalia

‘The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona’s military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.’ – Jane D. Hull

‘Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get… to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.’ – John Abizaid

‘This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.’ – Louis A. Johnson

‘Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.’ – Louis A. Johnson

‘However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.’ – Bill Shuster

‘If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.’ – Don Nickles

‘But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.’ – Don Nickles

‘I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.’ – John Spratt

‘We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers.’ – John Spratt

‘One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community – especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.’ – John Poindexter

‘Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.’ – Charles Vest

‘The last time I spoke with Robert was back in May. When his wife was murdered, I talked to several radio stations in defense of him because I know how Bobby Blake really is, and as far as I’m concerned, there’s no murder in his heart.’ – Tommy Bond

‘Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it’s very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that.’ – Lee H. Hamilton

‘In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department’s problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn’t want to be confined to a single network technology.’ – Vint Cerf

‘As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.’ – Gerhard Schroder

‘New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.’ – Jim Walsh

‘The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.’ – Charles Bass

‘As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty – as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today – our nation will remain free and strong.’ – Doc Hastings

‘They had been monitoring the site for a very long time, and at times, I received over 100 hits from the Department of Defense on the website, so I wasn’t the slightest bit surprised.’ – Sherman Austin

‘The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?’ – Floyd Abrams

‘I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.’ – Jim Garrison

‘When I come off the bench, I’m looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game, I have the experience to go out there and help us win.’ – Sue Wicks

‘The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.’ – Catherine Crier

‘I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.’ – Shimon Peres

‘So I’d rather have a defense that’s successful where everyone’s comfortable in their positions.’ – Michael Strahan

‘The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.’ – Richard Neal

‘The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.’ – George Pataki

‘In ’82 Brazil showed that you can’t win the World Cup without a solid defense.’ – Alan Hansen

‘The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.’ – David Korten

‘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

‘When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.’ – Aldrich Ames

‘We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America’s 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.’ – Bob Graham

‘It’s like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream – they could be down 30 points but that’s what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!’ – Oscar Robertson

‘Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.’ – Lester B. Pearson

‘It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.’ – Kevin Eubanks

‘One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry’s perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.’ – Vincent Bugliosi

‘If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.’ – Moshe Dayan

‘Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.’ – Geraldo Rivera

‘When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.’ – Rene Cassin

‘The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.’ – Alan Parsons

‘Many defense experts have predicted that we face no greater threat from a single country than from Iran.’ – Cathy McMorris Rodgers

‘In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.’ – Paul Elmer More

‘A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.’ – Lawrence Lessig

‘The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.’ – Jon Porter

‘I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.’ – Rafael Palmeiro

‘But as far as I’m concerned, I can still play defense.’ – Rafael Palmeiro

‘The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.’ – Robin Hayes

‘The nation’s obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.’ – Steve Buyer

‘I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.’ – George Wald

‘And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.’ – George Wald

‘All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.’ – George Wald

‘That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.’ – Luc Montagnier

‘Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.’ – Stephen Cambone

‘We’ve certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We’re doing a better job planning. We’re closer – more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack.’ – Michael Chertoff

‘The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.’ – Michael Chertoff

‘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

‘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

‘The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.’ – Kit Bond

‘The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run the offense. You should still be concerned on the offense side of the ball.’ – Isaiah Thomas

‘The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day.’ – Mike Fitzpatrick

‘Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.’ – Roger Wicker

‘Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.’ – Roger Wicker

‘I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.’ – Lynn Westmoreland

‘For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.’ – James T. Walsh

‘During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.’ – Ike Skelton

‘I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co’operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.’ – Abraham Whipple

‘As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.’ – Steven Hatfill

‘They scored 26 points in three quarters. That’s solid defense.’ – Bill Laimbeer

‘You have to play defense, that’s how you win.’ – Peter Bondra

‘The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.’ – Wendell Willkie

‘Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.’ – Christopher Lasch

‘The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.’ – Christopher Lasch

‘Democrats are committed to mapping a new direction in Iraq, and we will work with the President and the new Defense Secretary to ensure that the will of the American people guides our future actions.’ – Jim Clyburn

‘This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions – formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers’ rights and dignity.’ – Lech Walesa

‘The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred – this is the road we have chosen.’ – Lech Walesa

‘I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.’ – Stuart Symington

‘While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.’ – John L. Lewis

‘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

‘Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do.’ – Ken Starr

‘I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.’ – Malcolm X

‘If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they’ve had a bad day.’ – John Madden

‘A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.’ – James Q. Wilson

‘A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.’ – Irvin S. Cobb

‘Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘It’s pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.’ – Joe Garagiola

‘For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.’ – Aeschylus

‘Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘It’s always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That’s something we missed last year. We’d get some turnovers, but we never scored points.’ – Nick Ferguson

‘When people see the budget, they’re going to say, ‘Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn’t know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.” – John Breaux

‘America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.’ – Rudy Giuliani

‘I probably visualize myself, the shots I’m going to get in the game, how I’m going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team’s best player, what it’s going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.’ – Paul Pierce

‘The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.’ – Ben Nighthorse Campbell

‘All of the legal defense funds out there, they’re looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don’t make law, I know. I know.’ – Sonia Sotomayor

‘Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You’re either briefed or not briefed.’ – Mark Davis

‘We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.’ – Mitt Romney

‘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

‘I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.’ – Colin Powell

‘And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.’ – Janet Napolitano

‘These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation – sexual orientation’s been held against them is a blot on our nation’s reputation.’ – Dick Durbin

‘We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.’ – Gary L. Francione

‘I think we should be looking at the defense and seeing where we can actually be more efficient because I think that, you know, sometimes during the contracting process, we lose some efficiencies in that regard.’ – Ben Quayle

‘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

‘It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.’ – Erik Qualman

‘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

‘Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.’ – Mitt Romney

‘More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services – from movies to agriculture to national defense.’ – Marc Andreessen

‘The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.’ – Rachel Maddow

‘Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don’t see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world’s mobile phones.’ – Evan Davis

‘One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, ‘How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he’s not so innocent?’ It’s a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.’ – David E. Kelley

‘The American people can be – and deserve to be – assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.’ – Eric Holder

‘I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: ‘What’s going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?’ and I said: ‘Well, I’m obviously going to be a comedian.” – Adam Clayton

‘Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.’ – Steve Mariucci

‘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

‘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

‘In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.’ – Joe Scarborough

‘President Obama’s reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.’ – Paul Ryan

‘For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don’t know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.’ – Abdullah II of Jordan

‘The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters – raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn’t any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘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

‘I think what both Republicans and Democrats need to do and the leaders on both sides is to recognize that if sequester takes place, it would be disastrous for our national defense and very frankly for a lot of very important domestic programs. They have a responsibility to come together, find the money necessary to de-trigger sequester.’ – Leon Panetta

‘You know, one thing I’ve learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that’s what I’m doing as secretary of defense.’ – Leon Panetta

‘When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.’ – Leon Panetta

‘Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for.’ – Leon Panetta

‘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

‘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

‘I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.’ – Herman Cain

‘Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can’t. After all, Mitt Romney’s idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.’ – Chuck Schumer

‘One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to 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

‘The job of the government isn’t to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it’s to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.’ – Grover Norquist

‘There will be trying times during Obama’s presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.’ – Bill Kristol

‘You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that’s unpopular.’ – Anthony Kennedy

‘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

‘In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.’ – Helen Clark

‘As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.’ – Susan Rice

‘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

‘This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off.’ – Lindsey Graham

‘The other thing was that when I was at the University of Miami, we ran a pro-style offense and defense. I started each year by going to a pro training camp, I visited with various pro coaches, and I did this for five years.’ – Jimmy Johnson

‘The right to bear arms is because it’s the last form of defense against tyranny.’ – Ice T

‘Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.’ – Joe Montana

‘A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.’ – Vince Flynn

‘Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and – and this is the key bit of the argument – which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.’ – Pauline Neville-Jones

‘You know, you don’t retreat in the defense of freedom. You don’t retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don’t retreat because people are going to defend bad things.’ – Russell Pearce

‘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

‘After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.’ – Eliot Spitzer

‘Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition; they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.’ – Frank Gaffney

‘I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.’ – Matt Bomer

‘The defense of ObamaCare’s constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market.’ – John Podhoretz

‘Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, ‘We’re building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.” – Jay Carney

‘A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.’ – Vince Flynn

‘With craziness, you can’t predict it. There’s very little defense you can have on craziness.’ – Bryan Cranston

‘Well, no American wants to in any way hurt our capabilities to national defense, but that doesn’t mean an unlimited amount of money, and a blank check for anything they want at any time, for any purpose. Not at all.’ – Chuck Hagel

‘I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.’ – Russ Feingold

‘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

‘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

‘The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.’ – Robert M. Gates

‘Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.’ – Robert M. Gates

‘Defense is not like other discretionary spending.’ – Robert M. Gates

‘I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.’ – Robert M. Gates

‘I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.’ – Robert M. Gates

‘Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.’ – Bob Barr

‘When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.’ – Christine Pelosi

‘New and emerging infections keep coming back and the world needs a collective defense system, and that requires international cooperation and collaboration, in the name of global solidarity.’ – Margaret Chan

‘True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we’re fighting – actively fighting something else. But if you’re going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.’ – Lupe Fiasco

‘If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a ‘liberal’ result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a ‘conservative’ ruling, limiting the federal government’s ability to override state power?’ – Jeff Greenfield

‘My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It’s a defense. I don’t enjoy it or do anything with it.’ – Peter Ackroyd

‘In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, ‘Don’t be defensive,’ meaning, ‘You have no argument,’ but I was born in the age of Rommel, when defense was considered an honorable thing.’ – Mark Helprin

‘The American people say, ‘Don’t touch Social Security, don’t touch Medicare, don’t cut defense.’ That’s 84 percent of the federal budget.’ – Kent Conrad

‘I represent what I think is a traditional Republican… a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.’ – Olympia Snowe

‘Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the growth in personnel and benefits costs. A critical first step in that process should be to conduct a full Pentagon audit to determine how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.’ – Pete Hegseth

‘With the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has an opportunity to implement real defense reforms without having a serious impact on immediate battlefield needs.’ – Pete Hegseth

‘At Concerned Veterans for America, we’ve made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.’ – Pete Hegseth

‘Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.’ – Pete Hegseth

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

‘Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens.’ – Lawrence M. Krauss

‘One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don’t know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time.’ – Marc Andreessen

‘It’s increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of institutional survival, so much so that the state has gone to extraordinary lengths to punish and/or threaten to punish anyone who so much as tiptoes across the informational line.’ – Matt Taibbi

‘The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.’ – Nancy Pearcey

‘Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.’ – Rand Paul

‘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

‘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

‘Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.’ – Anthony Lewis

‘The thing that really struck me was how many firms that we think of as strictly civilian had ties to the Pentagon. Companies like Apple, Starbucks, Oakley the sunglasses manufacturer. Even Google, and a lot of big corporations like PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive, and Nestle, that you don’t normally think of as defense contractors.’ – Nick Turse

‘I think I can hold every portfolio – defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I’d like the foreign office.’ – Avigdor Lieberman

‘Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.’ – George W. Romney

‘I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column – winning. Nothing else matters.’ – Jason Kidd

‘McCain likes strong defense, and he’s viscerally suspicious of big companies. So he’s more a Square Deal guy than a New Deal guy.’ – Amity Shlaes

‘One of the defense mechanisms I have for the difficulties in the business, one of which is rejection, is that if I do the work, I go in, and I’m prepared and I audition and they don’t hire me, I’m always just amazed, thinking, ‘Wow! For that money, they could’ve had Bruce McGill, and they didn’t take me? I just think that’s amazing.” – Bruce McGill

‘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.’ – Howard Rheingold

‘God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘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

‘I was the fat kid, so as a defense mechanism, I was the jokester.’ – Peter DeLuise

‘If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the ecosystem but for our population… we should be saving our old-growth forests as a matter of national defense.’ – Paul Stamets

‘Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it’s also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.’ – Monica Raymund

‘We don’t realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the ’80s, part of the defense’s goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players… that’s fading away.’ – Bill Simmons

‘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

‘I’d spent 25 years in government when I left the Defense Department back in ’93, decided I’d go spend the rest of my career in the private sector, and then the president tapped me to come be his running mate. And it’s been a remarkable experience. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.’ – Dick Cheney

‘I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I’d be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.’ – Emma Stone

‘In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.’ – Vladimir Putin

‘I wasn’t a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world’s greatest. Good defense, no offense – that was me.’ – Chuck Connors

‘Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children’s predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop defense mechanisms, such as media-savvy attitudes or ironic dispositions. Then marketers research these defenses, develop new countermeasures, and on it goes.’ – Douglas Rushkoff

‘It’s not always easy being a full-time feminist – especially as a young woman – when you’re constantly being told that what you do is irrelevant. I’m on the defense all the time.’ – Jessica Valenti

‘Some day we’re gonna have interactive television where you can pick the shot that you want. You can watch defense, or you can watch the end-zone shot, or you can watch an isolated shot of Terance Mathis or whoever you want to. Because right now, the only thing that you watch is what the producer or director decides to show you.’ – John Madden

‘Any defensive coordinator is worried about two things: a running quarterback and a deep ball. You know, don’t get beat deep and don’t let the quarterback run, because a big part of your defense can’t account for the quarterback as a runner, so he gets a free run.’ – John Madden

‘I’m always conscious of what I’m writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.’ – Stephen Sondheim

‘I think that’s one of the great things about the Pittsburgh Steelers – we’re not a big free-agent team. We build guys up through our system to have a better understanding of our defense.’ – Troy Polamalu

‘Republicans spend too much time on defense. We have to be on offense. We have to point out the truth. President Obama stole seven hundred million dollars from Medicare. Republicans want to preserve Medicare. Obamacare robs from Medicare.’ – Rudy Giuliani

‘As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.’ – Ian Gomez

‘Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.’ – Joe Bastianich

‘The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can’t get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.’ – Oliver North

‘We cannot allow anything that’s called ‘national defense’ to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don’t overspend and say, ‘Oh, that’s defense,’ when perhaps it isn’t.’ – Grover Norquist

‘Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.’ – Grover Norquist

‘Spending an extra dollar on the D.C. public school system isn’t spending an extra dollar on education. Spending an extra dollar with the Pentagon doesn’t buy you an extra dollar on defense. Republicans need to look skeptically at military spending.’ – Grover Norquist

‘Until politicos take a true stand in defense of marriage by proposing an anti-adultery amendment to the Constitution, stop demonizing gays and lesbians when the one debasing your marriage is the individual in the mirror.’ – John Ridley

‘A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.’ – Tom Rachman

‘Let me start with a confession: I don’t enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I’m a New Man or Jamie Oliver disciple, but because my wife’s cooking is so bad. In fact, to me, cooking is less a pleasurable pastime than a defense against poisoning.’ – Mark Barrowcliffe

‘Coach Skiles is tough. He’s been my only coach in the NBA, so I’m used to it. His rules are a little different at times. At the end of the day, he just wants you to play hard defense, and you can’t fault him for that.’ – Brandon Jennings

‘Michigan has a lot at stake in the defense industry, and the defense industry has a lot at stake in Michigan.’ – Sander Levin

‘When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was ‘neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.’ He must have been an umpire. That’s what umpiring is about.’ – Doug Harvey

‘When my wife and I met, I couldn’t talk to her – and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said ‘Hi’ – and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, ‘I think I just met my wife.” – Mike Vogel

‘Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.’ – Tyler Cowen

‘Sometimes I relax on defense and not understand I can’t do that. Night in and night out, you’re playing some of the best point guards in the world. That’s something I’m continuing to work on and continue to develop my lower body, get quicker and more explosive.’ – Trey Burke

‘My job is just to make the right play, read the defense, shoot if it’s there, and make plays for my team.’ – Trey Burke

‘I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.’ – Dominick Dunne

‘Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.’ – Sebastian Horsley

‘The Philippines-U.S. Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement takes our security cooperation to a higher level of engagement, reaffirms our country’s commitment to mutual defense and security, and promotes regional peace and stability.’ – Benigno Aquino III

‘I like Ronald Reagan, who didn’t play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable.’ – Dave Brat

‘We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line to protect our country while we jeopardize their safety by failing to ensure that Defense Department funds are not siphoned off to warlords in Afghanistan.’ – John F. Tierney

‘Polygraphs are not allowed as evidence in most U.S. courts, but they’re routinely used in police investigations, and the Defense Department relies heavily on them for security screening.’ – Bill Dedman

‘As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.’ – Jill Lepore

‘Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.’ – Jill Lepore

‘The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland.’ – Timothy Noah

‘Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.’ – Timothy Noah

‘If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn’t need a whole separate government agency to provide ‘Homeland Security.” – Timothy Noah

‘To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear – fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets.’ – Robert Dallek

‘As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.’ – Barton Gellman

‘I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.’ – Barton Gellman

‘In middle school, I played quarterback. I was at a tiny school, so you played offense and defense – I played linebacker, and in high school I stopped playing around my sophomore year because of my acting stuff.’ – Jesse Plemons

‘I actually take karate and tae-kwon-do. And so I love sparring and grappling and all that physical stuff. I studied a hybrid form of grappling, sparring, and self defense; it’s more of a ‘get yourself in shape,’ and if you want to take it to the next level, so you’re really learning valuable skills with self defense, and I really enjoy it.’ – Daniella Alonso

‘For future Snowdens, we want to show there is an organization that will do what we did for Snowden – as much as possible – in raising money for legal defense and public advocacy for whistleblowers so they know if they come forward there is a support group for them.’ – Sarah Harrison

‘For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.’ – Jim Jordan

‘When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you – people I can’t name – you feel you’ve hit a nerve.’ – Daniel Suarez

‘Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes. Not all government workers receive generous pensions, they note.’ – Charles Duhigg

‘The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, ‘Madden’ is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.’ – Larry Fitzgerald

‘The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts well. Until 1967, he was careful to keep most of his forces east of the Jordan River. When he momentarily forgot these realities in 1967, it took Israel just three days of fighting to remind him of them.’ – Martin Van Creveld

‘I’ll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.’ – Linda Ronstadt

‘The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.’ – Annie Jacobsen

‘Somebody said something really smart: It’s like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You’re fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school – it’s Acting 1A: ‘What do you want? What’s in the way?” – Annette Bening

‘Every chemical that makes it into your bloodstream – be it through your lungs, stomach, or skin – meets up with your liver at some point. Since your liver is your body’s best defense when it comes to filtering out all those toxins, you need to treat it well.’ – Suzanne Somers

‘I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children… and for defending in juvenile court those kids the ‘child protective system’ had missed when it had the chance.’ – Andrew Vachss

‘Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.’ – Andrew Vachss

‘Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause to go to trial to then determine if Officer Wilson is guilty or not. It is at trial that he can then defend himself and his attorneys can present their own witnesses and their own defense.’ – Al Sharpton

‘I think lawyers have a fidelity to the system itself that’s always got to be with them, and indeed, most of the defense lawyers I know observe that.’ – Scott Turow

‘Any swagger is just defense. When you’re reminded so much of who you are by people – not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up – you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.’ – Peter Dinklage

‘Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What’s that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it’s turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.’ – Paul Singer

‘Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.’ – Mike McCarthy

‘You have to give it to the Packers. They are a good team. They have a great offense and a great defense.’ – Rob Gronkowski

‘I was the principal negotiator for the Department of Defense, when I was secretary of the Navy, on the issue of Toshiba technology concerns with American submarines.’ – Jim Webb

‘I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.’ – Mike Huckabee

‘In Ronald Reagan’s chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a characteristic psychic defense mechanism of the Boy Who Disappears.’ – Rick Perlstein

‘The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural – and legal – tipping point for equality for all people who do not identify as strictly heterosexual, arguably the civil rights movement of our times. The president signed the bill repealing ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.’ The Defense of Marriage Act was struck down by the Supreme Court.’ – Charles M. Blow

‘I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.’ – Gary Johnson

‘I believe in a strong national defense. But it’s my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn’t be involved in either area.’ – Gary Johnson

‘I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.’ – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

‘It’s always great when you just pound the rock, impose your will, and that is going to break the spirit of the defense if you can keep running it and they can’t stop you.’ – Logan Mankins

‘I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.’ – Richard Sherman

‘I’m not questioning Dick Cheney’s motives. There’s a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.’ – Rand Paul

‘We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.’ – Ted Cruz

‘We need to have a national security that puts steel in front of our enemies. I would send weapons to Ukraine. I would work with NATO to put forces on the eastern border of Poland and the Baltic nations, and I would reinstate, put in place back in the missile defense system that we had in Poland and in the Czech Republic.’ – Scott Walker

‘In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World War II, more than $15 billion in unnecessary and fraudulent defense spending was identified.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been patriotic enough to shoulder a musket in defense of a boarding house. The prosperity and glory of our country depend upon the number of people who are the owners of homes.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘Look at Baltimore back in 2000. They had an outstanding defense. They could run the ball, and they had a quarterback that didn’t turn it over that much. I think that is a plan that can bring you great success.’ – Bob McNair

‘We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer’s conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.’ – David Souter

‘The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the United States and the principles of fiscal discipline, limited government, accountability, and a strong national defense.’ – Jason Chaffetz

‘I don’t think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems.’ – Sergei Lavrov

‘Russia would prefer to rebuild trust rather than allow it to further corrode. That’s why, in July 2007, President Putin, in the spirit of strategic openness, proposed a truly collective effort at missile defense for Europe.’ – Sergei Lavrov

‘Defense of free markets is where we need to be when establishing a vision for national technology policy.’ – Marsha Blackburn

‘The Gulf Waterkeepers are our first line of defense against the BP oil disaster. Their incredible knowledge of the marshes, wetlands, beaches and inner-coastal waters make them invaluable first responders. Their commitment makes them critical and effective community leaders.’ – Sophie B. Hawkins

‘We are actually a very rich country with a lot of resources and the ability to do almost whatever we want. We could eliminate poverty in America by spending a fraction of what we spend on defense.’ – Alex Pareene

‘What we mean by an outcome will naturally depend on the context. Thus, for a government charged with delivering public goods, an outcome will consist of the quantities provided of such goods as intercity highways, national defense and security, environmental protection, and public education together with the arrangements by which they are financed.’ – Eric Maskin

‘I can’t marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won’t recognize my marriage.’ – Jose Antonio Vargas

‘With technology tracking us everywhere we go, ‘cosplay’ might become our best defense against surveillance.’ – Annalee Newitz

‘North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim’s ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man’s offense of falling asleep in a meeting.’ – Barbara Demick

‘There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I’ve tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.’ – Edward Hirsch

‘I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces’ combat physician on a Navy ship.’ – Aaron Ciechanover

‘For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.’ – Nigel Hamilton

‘I start by moisturizing my face neck and chest with my own anti-aging SPF And IR Defense Sunblock called Recapture 360… Allow to sink in… Then I like Neutrogena’s range of spray on sunblocks for body… then I use a foundation with SPF 30 or higher on my face to add yet another layer of protection to my face.’ – Christie Brinkley

‘The football playoffs feature one-off affairs, without bad feelings building from weekend to weekend. In addition, football uses platoons for offense and defense and kicking, so only the interior linemen have a chance to really get up close and personal with one another.’ – George Vecsey

‘For the longest time, it’s always been Aaron Rodgers and the offense. It’s nice to have a little notoriety on defense.’ – Clay Matthews III

‘It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy.’ – M. Stanton Evans

‘I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as that in Berlin, built to prevent people from seeking freedom, is almost beyond comprehension.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘Management is defense. You basically say, ‘This is the direction; this is where we’re heading,’ and then it’s my job to get everything else out of the way. All the other things that can become a distraction keep us from executing well. Get those out of the way, because the team ultimately needs to run in that direction and execute well.’ – Marissa Mayer

‘Bob Gates has unusual standing in the debate about the Obama administration’s foreign policy: He was defense secretary for both a hawkish President George W. Bush and a wary President Obama. He understood Bush’s desire to project power and Obama’s skepticism.’ – David Ignatius

‘I think any player at any position their rookie year, they’re trying to figure out how to process all the information we give them, how to process what the defense is doing and then actually physically play the game and the position that they’re playing.’ – Josh McDaniels

‘When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it. Most of the time, I don’t see the great catch or the long run. What I’m looking at is how the other team defended it.’ – Tom Landry

‘Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘The role of the defense is to be an advocate for their client, regardless of whether he did it or not, within the bounds of the law.’ – Jeffrey Toobin

‘I believe that wholeheartedly – that we have to maintain a strong national defense.’ – Joni Ernst

‘The framers understood that the president, as the head of our armed forces, must defend the nation from imminent threat. But when the mission shifts from defense to offense, congressional approval is essential.’ – Tim Kaine

‘During my time as CIA Director and Secretary of Defense, Hillary was a strong supporter of our efforts to protect our homeland, decimate al-Qaeda, and bring Osama bin Laden to justice.’ – Leon Panetta

‘It was at the Children’s Defense Fund that I met Hillary. I was 21, feisty, and ready to fight. And I remember thinking immediately, ‘Here is a woman who doesn’t mess around.’ Steel in her spine, Hillary didn’t want to talk about anything other than how to make children’s lives better.’ – Donna Brazile

‘To defeat Islamic extremist terrorism, we must put them on defense. If they are at war against us – which they have declared – we must commit ourselves to unconditional victory against them.’ – Rudy Giuliani

‘Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that helped the Jews survive through 2,000 years of an often very harsh Diaspora.’ – Gil Marks

‘This is pool. This is setting up your next shot, and I always want to make sure when we’re setting up San Antonio’s next shot we have a good shot at making sure that we continue to build our infrastructure in such a way that San Antonio will be a player for years to come in national defense issues.’ – Pete Gallego

‘We’ll uphold our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO.’ – Mike Pence

‘The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers’ publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course.’ – Yair Lapid

‘Israel made peace with Egypt, the largest Arab State. There are militant Islamists there, but there is also law. There are agreements and also defense arrangements there.’ – Ayman Odeh

‘Ahmed Tibi does not recognize the existence of the state of Israel, and letting him into the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee is a serious danger to its security.’ – Eli Yishai

‘I love the people of Israel. I love the land of Israel. I love the Torah of Israel. I love the Israel Defense Forces. I love our soldiers. If you feel the same way I do, you have a home.’ – Naftali Bennett

‘Israel will continue to act proactively to prevent the transfer of heavy missiles or advanced air defense systems from Syria to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, which, of course, carries the risk of a military showdown.’ – Ehud Barak

‘In the 1960s, as a rising defense intellectual, Kissinger was a Nelson Rockefeller man, firmly entrenched in the center-right establishment. When he attended the infamous 1964 Republican convention in San Francisco, he was horrified by Goldwater supporters, whom he likened to fascists.’ – Greg Grandin

‘At the same time that Donald Trump was facing a federal discrimination lawsuit for refusing to rent to minority families, Hillary Clinton risked her own safety to seek out the truth, to comfort the afflicted, and to make a home for justice where there was none. It was at the Children’s Defense Fund that I met Hillary.’ – Donna Brazile

‘I had a vision of how basketball should be played. And the vision was the Knicks teams that won the championship in 1970 and 1973. I wanted a team that emphasized defense. I wanted a team that on offense had a system where players moved off the ball, and the ball moved.’ – Jerry Reinsdorf

‘I had been a basketball fan growing up, and I felt that if we brought in the proper coach, and we played basketball the old fashioned way – where defense is paramount and offense involved movement off the ball and movement of the ball – we could build a winning team, and Chicago would respond to that.’ – Jerry Reinsdorf

‘The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.’ – Ander Crenshaw

‘Within the government, within the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, you have practically eliminated any training or any use of the term ‘radical Islam.’ That’s what we’re facing.’ – Michael T. Flynn

‘What we have to do is we have to make sure that our country is as strong as it can be economically and from a defense standpoint.’ – Michael T. Flynn

‘The mission statement of the RSC is to foster a constitutionally bound limited government, it’s to have a strong national defense, it’s to protect private property rights and it’s to support American values. That’s what the mission statement is. There’s nothing in the mission statement about trying to hold leadership accountable.’ – Bill Flores

‘Every U.S. citizen should have the assurance that the U.S. government will come vigorously to their defense in a time of need, especially when they are unjustly tried in a foreign country.’ – Trent Franks

‘Of all government expenditures, defense spending is the… most stimulative to the economy.’ – Trent Franks

‘I think cutting our defense capacity not only demonstrably diminishes our national security, but it has a tremendous negative impact in the long run on our economy because we end up having to fight wars and clean up after terrorist disasters.’ – Trent Franks

‘I’m a big defense hawk and a big fiscal conservative, but in this case, Pakistan continues to imprison the man who gave us Osama bin Laden and continue to have a major ideological bent within the middle echelons of their government that, I think, should cause all of us pause given the size and nature of their nuclear arsenal.’ – Trent Franks

‘The president and the administration had a duty to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, but powerful constituencies of the president did not want the president to defend it. And unfortunately, politics trumped duty.’ – Trent Franks

‘Part of my job is to make sure the Northeast is part of our defense industrial base, and New Jersey has always played a role.’ – Rodney Frelinghuysen

‘I now sit at the table in a variety of ways with the House leadership… as we go through taking a look at threat assessments and hot spots around the world. It’s a national position, but certainly I don’t forget that New Jersey has a critical part of national defense.’ – Rodney Frelinghuysen

‘Among the chartered responsibilities of the federal government were, in those areas where appropriate – such as facilitating interstate commerce – to provide for justice and domestic tranquility, the common defense, and to secure the blessings of liberty.’ – Chris Gibson

‘I believe I was sent to Washington to fight for and defend our traditional values of smaller government, lower taxes, a strong national defense, and the lives of the unborn.’ – Phil Gingrey

‘I am confident that the Defense Department understands JSTARS is a major priority for Congress and will complete the process of updating the JSTARS fleet in a timely manner.’ – Tom Graves

‘Unfortunately, New Mexico depends significantly on federal dollars. We have four military bases here in New Mexico. We have two national labs that are very important to our national defense.’ – Susana Martinez

‘I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.’ – Ehud Olmert

‘There are lots of different ideas, lots of different opinions about the First Amendment Defense Act and what it should be. There were a lot of different forms of it while I was on the Hill. But I would say that I agree that the decision on gay marriage does mean that we need to take some steps to defend religious liberty.’ – Evan McMullin

‘Rattigan’s world demanded unwavering trust in principles, loyalty, and virtue. At the time of this play – Rattigan was writing this play in 1947 about an incident that took place in 1914 – should a boy say he didn’t do something, his father would believe him; a British father would take the defense of his son’s honor to his grave.’ – Roger Rees

‘To understand the fanatic rejection of women’s liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.’ – Fatema Mernissi

‘I have confidence in my players around me – my offensive line, my running backs, my wide receivers, and the defense and special teams.’ – Chad Kelly

‘I want to play defense. I want to get sacks.’ – Austin Seferian-Jenkins

‘Trillions of dollars in out-of-control entitlement spending cannot be remedied by cuts in NASA, or even in the entire discretionary budget, defense included. Rather, the financial bleeding needs to be staunched where the hole is and nowhere else.’ – Robert Zubrin

‘The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense.’ – Robert Zubrin

‘We got Defense of Marriage Act as a federal law from President Bill Clinton. And it was passed with bipartisan support.’ – Kellyanne Conway

‘I think it’s important for people to understand that this started with President Bill Clinton. He, as president, thought it was such a big priority, he passed the defense of marriage – defense of traditional non-gay marriage – that we have it as a federal law.’ – Kellyanne Conway

‘You need a debate and a vote on the principles: Do you want more Europe or less Europe? Do you believe we are more efficient with defense and security with Europe, or not? Do you believe we are more efficient for our companies with or without Europe? Those are the questions we have to discuss and push our people to vote on it.’ – Emmanuel Macron

‘I want to thank the American people – on both sides of the aisle – for years of financial, diplomatic, and military support, and for helping us carry the burden of defense.’ – Reuven Rivlin

‘Joe Prunty will take over, and he will run the team. But nobody gets out of their lane. Joe will still be offense, and Sweeney will still be defense.’ – Jason Kidd

‘Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘I have dear friends of mine who represent real Republicans. Goldwater Republicans. Strong on defense. Tough on immigration. Fiscal conservatives.’ – Alec Baldwin

‘Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith was equally insistent in 2002-2003 about an operational relationship between al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.’ – Michael Hayden

‘The wars we fought were forced upon us. Thanks to the Israel Defense Forces, we won them all, but we did not win the greatest victory that we aspired to: release from the need to win victories.’ – Shimon Peres

‘My thesis was a defense of our Constitution on the terms that the founding fathers wrote specifically in the Federalist Papers. They hoped that our form of government would draw forward men and women who are the wisest, most prudent, and most experienced.’ – Tom Cotton

‘Trying to balance the budget through defense cuts is both counterproductive and impossible.’ – Tom Cotton

‘The purpose of our common defense, after all, is to protect our people so that we can enjoy the blessings of peace, faith, freedom, family, prosperity.’ – Tom Cotton

‘The decision to withdraw our missile defense sites from Poland put us in greater jeopardy, in my view.’ – Mitt Romney

‘Donald Trump is right. We need to figure out a way to end this cycle of hostility that’s putting this country at risk, costing us billions of dollars in defense, and creating hostility that should not exist.’ – Jeff Sessions

‘Before 9/11, our defense policy was based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights; we will never be an aggressor.’ – Sam Brownback

‘BRAC originated in the 1960s under President Kennedy as the Department of Defense (DOD) had to realign its base structure after World War II and the Korean War. At that time, the DOD was able to close bases without congressional interference, and 60 bases were closed in the 1960s.’ – Sam Brownback

‘The one thing I was always told is you absolutely have to tell truth to power. Whether you’re a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-star general working with the Office Secretary of Defense and the White House, the decision makers have got to have ground truth.’ – John F. Kelly

‘Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.’ – Fidel Castro

”Heaven’s Gate’ was based on a true story about the cattle people: the people who had the money turned on the settlers who were in the area. And it was mainly a defense of their behavior. And the cattlemen’s association had just about declared war on these people who were poaching cattle, and because they were mainly immigrants.’ – Kris Kristofferson

‘Everybody laughs all the time, and some of the worst things that happen make you laugh ’cause it’s a defense isn’t it, I suppose.’ – Olivia Colman

‘Today, we are not likely to need to organize local militias for our defense now we have something called the Pentagon.’ – Peter Bergen

‘The Obama administration has framed its defense of the controversial bulk collection of all American phone records as necessary to prevent a future 9/11.’ – Peter Bergen

‘In picking Gen. Jim Mattis for Defense secretary, President-elect Donald Trump has said that he found his ‘Gen. George Patton.’ Yet that label may not really capture what makes Mattis a distinctive choice.’ – Peter Bergen

‘Trump is more conservative on individual rights, domestic issues, economic issues and defense. On the other hand, Clinton is quite liberal and wishes to open the borders for more trades and more immigrants.’ – Fabrizio Moreira

‘Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.’ – Jack Keane

‘Senator Clinton is very knowledgeable about national security and is probably going to be strong on defense. I have no doubts whatsoever that if she were president in January ’09, she would not act irresponsibly and issue orders to conduct an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the consequences, and squander the gains that have been made.’ – Jack Keane

‘Many activists and antagonists who are on the wrong side of an issue employ the tactic of, ‘the best defense is a good offense.” – Mike Gallagher

‘My strength is my wrestling, but I don’t focus on it as much. I try to focus on a lot of different things like knees, elbows, submissions, and submission defense – just a lot of different things.’ – Brock Lesnar

‘We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. But certainly, there can be no true national unity where one-tenth of the population is denied their basic rights as American citizens.’ – A. Philip Randolph

‘All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.’ – Brigitte Bardot

‘When I went to the prosecutor’s office, I wanted to be one of the good guys that the defense could trust. I’d try fair, clean cases, pull no punches, no below-the-belt stuff. Honorable. Because that’s the kind of prosecutor I wanted to deal with.’ – Marcia Clark

‘The prosecution has to go with the evidence and the facts and tell the story as it happened. The defense has more creative freedom. All you have to do is look for a defense that works. But it doesn’t have to be the truth. Sometimes you get lucky and it is, but sometimes you don’t, and either way, it doesn’t matter.’ – Marcia Clark

‘I was a defense attorney before I was a prosecutor, and so knowing what the defense is going to try to do is something that you have to do constantly when you’re in trial. I always went to trial knowing what they were doing. So I was always in both mindsets anyway. ‘Oh, they’re going to do this, then I’m going to do that.” – Marcia Clark

‘There are bombshells that happen in court. Especially when the defense doesn’t share discovery of material the way the prosecution does, and so surprises always happen. Things pop out without warning.’ – Marcia Clark

‘I’ve got a good first step and things of that nature. So it’s just about using your body to make the defense play at your tempo and react to you.’ – Seth Curry

‘If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team, I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.’ – Nick Saban

‘To me, a good running back is a good defense. A good running back helps you keep your defense off the field.’ – Ezekiel Elliott

‘This is a physical game, and that’s how you have to play. When you do that, the defense eventually gets tired of tackling you.’ – Ezekiel Elliott

‘The center-right alternative media has been playing a passable prevent defense, constantly saying ‘That’s not right’ for consistently biased reporting.’ – Andrew Breitbart

‘That’s how I grew up. Just play defense – and make a basket.’ – Kawhi Leonard

‘I’ll be in a cadence, and I’ll start to see one thing that a defense is starting to do, I’m like, ‘I saw that two months ago on film.’ And then that triggers whatever call you need to make.’ – Carson Wentz

‘I can make all the throws. My mental side is a strength as far as understanding defense schemes and our playbook. I’m able to change plays when needed. I think that sets me apart.’ – Carson Wentz

‘A lot of guys have tons of talent, but it boils down to the mental side of things. Preparing and knowing your offense and studying the defense. Being able to read and react quickly. The mental side is often overlooked.’ – Carson Wentz

‘In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve – and sustain – political goals.’ – H. R. McMaster

‘Whether you’re a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-star general working with the Office Secretary of Defense and the White House, the decision makers have got to have ground truth. Otherwise, the decisions they make could be flawed – and that can be dangerous.’ – John F. Kelly

‘My brothers bullied me, so I cried a lot as a kid. It was the only defense I had. Telling them to stop wouldn’t work. The crying would bring my dad. Dad was my cavalry.’ – Steven Adams

‘Defense is gonna help me in particular and help my team, so that’s what I’ve really focused on.’ – Steven Adams

‘I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.’ – J. R. Smith

‘I will always find a defense for characters, and that’s why it’s fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.’ – Damian Lewis

‘I do not stop repeating it to French Jews… Not only is the National Front not your enemy, but it is without a doubt the best shield to protect you. It stands at your side for the defense of our freedoms of thought and of religion against the only real enemy: Islamist fundamentalism.’ – Marine Le Pen

‘It’s really interesting because I’m a Quaker… so it’s been radical to me to be hired by the Department of Defense under contract.’ – Elizabeth Marvel

‘I’m studying Krav Maga, which is an Israeli form of self defense. It’s very deadly and without rules.’ – Rupert Friend

‘I have long believed there is a lot of waste in the defense budget.’ – Bob Beckel

‘I’ve been around all kinds of people, defense attorneys, working with cops, working with politicians, both sides of the aisle, including Democrats as former first lady of San Francisco, and the Republicans, too, so I’ve had a front row seat to lots of things in life.’ – Kimberly Guilfoyle

‘That was it – I lost my job… I was very discouraged. I wanted to be in defense work… I’m an American, and I have nothin’ to do with Japan, and so it’s sort of an insult to me.’ – Fred Korematsu

‘When I was little, my dad told me about Anandpur Sahib and the court of Guru Gobind Singh. That we came from a tradition of poets, warriors and artists who created when it was illegal to create… we’re groomed to be reckless in the defense of what we feel is right.’ – Rupi Kaur

‘Ain’t nobody ever had a jumpshot like mine, ain’t nobody ever power moves like mine, ain’t nobody ever tough defense like mine and ain’t nobody ever had the courage to be a winner like me.’ – Moses Malone

‘The hard reality is that attacks by vehicles in public places are very hard to defend against in a free and open society. The best defense against such attacks is good intelligence, and that often comes from inside the Muslim community.’ – Peter Bergen

‘I’ve had asthma my whole life. My mom used to hook the generator up to the Suburban and roll the extension cord all the way down to the football field and have my nebulizer hooked up to that so I could take treatments in between offense and defense. I was in the fifth grade when she started doing that.’ – Von Miller

‘There’s something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world’s population, spends more than 50 percent of the world’s defense budgets. There’s something weird about it.’ – Zbigniew Brzezinski

‘I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?’ – Zbigniew Brzezinski

‘I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.’ – Oscar Taveras

‘I actually was a defense attorney first.’ – Marcia Clark

‘I wasn’t unsympathetic as a defense attorney, but my strong feelings for the victims were getting in my way. I identified too much with the victim.’ – Marcia Clark

‘The only thing the defense has to do is take care of the client and see to it that they attack every weak spot on the prosecution’s case. It’s up to the judge to make sure that they don’t pull any fast ones.’ – Marcia Clark

‘When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.’ – Jo Cox

‘Until that moment comes when the ball comes to me every time, I have to find a way to be effective with offensive rebounds, play hard defense, blocking shots.’ – Kristaps Porzingis

‘House Republicans are the most powerful force for limited government, strong national defense, and economic opportunity that exists in America today. But it is not enough to just talk about conservative values.’ – Steve Scalise

‘I think it’s encouraging that President Trump is talking about strengthening our national defense, something he ran on again.’ – Steve Scalise

‘There was a very strong bipartisan coalition in Congress under President Bill Clinton that passed the Defense of Marriage Act. And you’ve had a majority of the states in this country that have strongly stated that marriage ought to be remain the union between one man and one woman.’ – Steve Scalise

‘I think I’m underrated on defense. I try to use my length and feet and put pressure on players.’ – Tony Snell

‘I think I’m a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it’s fun robbing guys on hits – there are plenty of times you’re gonna be robbed as a hitter.’ – Vernon Wells

‘Maggie is my sister-in-law, married to my brother David. She is a defense attorney who devotes 25 percent of her practice to pro bono wrongful-incarceration cases.’ – Lisa Lutz

‘Even though there wasn’t much damage, it’s a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.’ – Isoroku Yamamoto

‘As a national security aid, I worked with our military to strengthen our national defense.’ – Jon Ossoff

‘God has blessed me with an unbelievable talent, with fast feet, fast hands, unbelievable defense and a very, very sharp mind. So I’m thankful for that.’ – Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

‘The Defense Department is prone to all of the ‘traditional bureaucratic rules,’ which is the same thing you’ll find in most traditional government systems.’ – Chris Fussell

‘As my friends will tell you, I am a superior agonizer. Believe me, you do not want me in the cockpit of an airliner. But in my defense, choosing an idea is also a high-stakes affair.’ – Erik Larson

‘As the name of the agency suggests, ‘Department of Defense,’ the defense refers to the United States of America – not the defense of South Korea, not the defense of Ukraine, not the defense of Syria or Germany.’ – Ann Coulter

‘I thought the irreducible requirements of Republicanism were being for life, small government, and a strong national defense.’ – Ann Coulter

‘America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department.’ – Mitch McConnell

‘If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.’ – Larry Brown

‘When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, ‘Duty’, it was full of tough assessments and candor.’ – John Dickerson

‘When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.’ – John McCain

‘I know what it takes to get to the Super Bowl, what Giants pride and that defense is really about.’ – Jason Pierre-Paul

‘Defense was one thing I was really able to work at and get better.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘Defense is something I take a lot of pride in.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘What is most remarkable to me about Durant’s game is what he does given his size. It’s so unique to have a player who is 6-foot-9 with the ability to shoot and handle the ball so well. It allows him to stretch the opposing team’s defense because he can do those things at such a high level. He’s a load to deal with and an extremely tough matchup.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you’ve got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.’ – Calvin Johnson

‘I do what I can do to help my defense.’ – Malik Jackson

‘Not only the attackers, but the defenders – it’s on the attackers to prepare themselves to break through the strong defense.’ – Neymar

‘Just because it’s a break doesn’t mean it has to be fast all the time. It can be a secondary break, but you’ve got to allow the defense to break down.’ – Draymond Green

‘One thing I’ve always been taught at the defensive end is you hit first. In life, you throw the first punch; you don’t get punched first. It’s the same on defense: You’ve got to hit first. Do your work early. That’s what I was always taught. If you don’t do your work early, you’re done.’ – Draymond Green

‘President Trump recognizes that the F-35 is a very large program – the largest program in the Department of Defense. He wants to make the sure that the American taxpayer is getting the lowest possible cost on the program.’ – Marillyn Hewson

‘Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!’ – Tom Perez

‘As America prepared for war in 1941, discrimination largely shut black Americans out of job opportunities in the growing defense industry.’ – Tom Perez

‘Improving veterans’ employment is an all-hands-on-deck enterprise. We work with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, with private sector partners and others.’ – Tom Perez

‘We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven’t found the will to work together to adjust them.’ – John McCain

‘My greatest defense was my offense. Very few guys did that.’ – Jake LaMotta

‘The so-called Defense of Marriage Act is a valueless tradition that, like laws against interracial marriage that were finally overturned by the Supreme Court in 1967, undermines the spirit of love and commitment that couples share and sends the wrong message to society.’ – Jared Polis

‘The power of Political Correctness is demonstrated by the entire political establishment coming to the defense of open immigration from Muslim-majority nations.’ – Tom Tancredo

‘We need to stop defining Boeing’s future based on a single program or two programs, and we have been doing that with the fighter story. It doesn’t mean it was wrong or right; I just don’t think it represents the great diversity of the Boeing Defense portfolio.’ – Leanne Caret

‘Commonwealth is the only alternative for Puerto Rico. It is the only alternative that harmonizes the aspirations and goals of the modern world by protecting Puerto Rico’s identity and simultaneously guaranteeing its relationship with the United States, complete with a common market, common citizenship, common defense, and common currency.’ – Anibal Acevedo Vila

‘Conor McGregor – this guy is so offensive minded and never on the defense that whenever you put him on the defense, he gets so flustered and so upset.’ – Eddie Alvarez

‘As a member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee during the 2000s, I met with civilian and military officials in Kurdistan, Libya, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, and Yemen. They shared many of the same international defense priorities as the United States. We acknowledged our differences, but we worked from where we found common ground.’ – Pete Hoekstra

‘The Constitution authorizes Congress to tax Americans to provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare. But in Washington, the professional political class has hijacked that authority to rig up a tax code that provides for the well-being of Washington, not the country.’ – Josh Hawley

‘In the real world, some defense lawyers never have an innocent client in their whole career.’ – Michael Connelly

‘The criminal defense attorney is misunderstood if not despised by most of society. It doesn’t matter if we believe in our adversarial system and the ideal that everyone charged with a crime is entitled to a vigorous defense. Ideals give away to reality – defense lawyers working loopholes and angles to get their clients off.’ – Michael Connelly

‘For me, all I want to do is win. Whether I make a hundred tackles or one tackle, all I want to do is win and for the defense to perform well.’ – Rolando McClain

‘The National Multifamily Housing Council, a trade association of apartment owners, managers, developers and lenders, has come to the defense of the interest deduction and other provisions favorable to the real estate industry, describing them as ‘core principles’ and promising a fight.’ – James B. Stewart

‘Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it’s really not a very good defense – rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament.’ – Timothy Morton

‘Boeing, LockMart, and hundreds of other companies, large and small, work in the space business, and they also create new techniques and technology; but they’d be nowhere if NASA and the Department of Defense hadn’t shown the way by funding the first big rockets and satellites.’ – Homer Hickam

‘I have the highest takedown defense in the entire welterweight division, maybe the second-highest on the UFC roster.’ – Tyron Woodley

‘Pishevar, co-founder and managing director of Sherpa Capital, is a powerful figure in the Valley and a bridge to establishment figures on both coasts. He cultivated a relationship with Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick and publicly came to his defense when he was ousted as chief executive officer and sued by another investor.’ – Emily Chang

‘If nothing else, the cyber attacks that occurred during the 2016 presidential election have laid bare the very real vulnerabilities that exist across our government and the private sector. Imagine the harm that could be done if our enemies ever hack into the Department of Defense or Homeland Security.’ – Mike Quigley

‘As a reporter in Israel, I have interviewed hundreds of people in its intelligence and defense establishments and studied thousands of classified documents that revealed a hidden history, surprising even in the context of Israel’s already fierce reputation.’ – Ronen Bergman

‘In most countries, the political class supervises the defense establishment and restrains its leaders from violating human rights or pursuing dangerous, aggressive policies.’ – Ronen Bergman

‘If Israeli intelligence that has been shared with the United States – whether the National Security Agency, the C.I.A., the Defense Department, or the White House – is not safely guarded, Israel faces a major threat to its security. Cooperation with America’s agencies is deeply embedded in Israel’s intelligence community.’ – Ronen Bergman

‘I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also, I know I was not a power hitter.’ – Carlos Ruiz

‘Frankly, we should have an ARPA-O, an Advanced Research Projects Agency for oceans research, to match DARPA for defense and ARPA-E for energy. And we should have an Oceans and Coasts Fund to match the upland- and freshwater-directed Land and Water Conservation Fund.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘The historic quarrels between Japan and Korea pale in importance to the bigger question of extent of U.S. commitment to the defense of the region.’ – Richard Edelman

‘The for-profit college industry is clearly the single-heaviest subsidized business in America. More than any defense contractor or any farm operation… So many of them are a horrible waste of students’ time and of taxpayer dollars.’ – Dick Durbin

‘Appeasing Wall Street is to be expected from the GOP who do little to hide their true intentions and their defense of the wealthiest financial institutions and interests.’ – Luis Gutierrez

‘You have to be able to recognize defenses on your own in pro football. You can’t look to the sideline and read some board. You’ve got to recognize the defense on your own, and then you’ve got to communicate to your offensive teammates what you want them to do.’ – Jon Gruden

‘When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.’ – Jon Gruden

‘Does any woman really just come in and say, ‘I’m a plus-size woman?’ Maybe as a defense mechanism or maybe as a way to kind of cope with fitting into society but… I just think it’s divisive.’ – Ashley Graham

‘Since 1989, public alarm at the prospect of atomic Armageddon has quietened, but the number of nuclear-armed states has increased, arsenals are being modernized, and powerful states remain convinced that a nuclear security umbrella is vital to national defense, domestic prestige, and geopolitical clout.’ – Peter Maurer

‘It’s just always been a knack for me to play defense.’ – Edwin Jackson

‘When I was defense minister, I was very popular, and now that I’m president, I’m unpopular because I’m trying to make peace. It’s much easier to make war and get trophies.’ – Juan Manuel Santos

‘I’ll absolutely be focusing in on the defense of this nation and making sure that our men and women have the proper tools, training, and equipment to do their jobs, that they have clear rules of engagement and, in the event that something happens to them, that we have a VA system that actually works.’ – Darryl Glenn

‘Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal democracies will remain vulnerable to the cyberthreats of the 21st century.’ – Toomas Hendrik Ilves

‘In a modern digitalized world, it is possible to paralyze a country without attacking its defense forces: The country can be ruined by simply bringing its SCADA systems to a halt. To impoverish a country, one can erase its banking records. The most sophisticated military technology can be rendered irrelevant. In cyberspace, no country is an island.’ – Toomas Hendrik Ilves

‘There are major funding gaps for security research generally, particularly when it comes to defensive security practices and tools that will contribute to the protection and defense of the Internet.’ – Alex Stamos

‘We founded Palantir in 2003-2004 because we perceived a giant gap between how the defense and intelligence community was harnessing technology to achieve its goals and what we had seen was possible in Silicon Valley over the last decade.’ – Joe Lonsdale

‘Those who serve in our armed forces do so from a profound sense of duty to secure liberty for their fellow Americans. They enlist to serve their fellow citizens who express their will through elected representatives, not an unaccountable defense establishment.’ – Joe Lonsdale

‘I’m a really good shooter, three-point shooter. I’m good at defense. Dribbling, not so much.’ – Nina Agdal

‘Trump’s defense of white Anglo-Saxon Protestantism is gathering those who support him into a strong solidified base. Since the election of Francis, Republicans have been very wary of the Pope, attacking his liberal statements on homosexuality, global warming, and capitalism.’ – Anthea Butler

‘Moral licensing comes into play when people rely on past behavior to dismiss current prejudiced behavior. This is better known as the ‘Some of my best friends are…’ defense.’ – Nell Scovell

‘You’re not hearing people like Madeleine Albright argue that the budget of the State Department should be as large as the Defense Department. The Pentagon is going to be larger by its nature. It’s going to have more people.’ – Ronan Farrow

‘There’s hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I’ve had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I’m an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion.’ – John Singleton

‘When I got to Activision, it was like a carnival. They had a recycling container filled with cans and a sign over it that said ‘Activision Takeover Defense Fund.’ Activision was making games based on passion and gut instinct. We needed to develop games based on P&L statements and what was going to sell.’ – Bobby Kotick

‘I refused to adopt civilian way of life and slowly influenced my civilian surroundings to do things the military way. My civilian career as an entrepreneur and founder of a defense contracting company has been an extension of my military service.’ – Todd Wilcox

‘The U.S. is not great at defense, but in my travels overseas, I realized that everyone else is even worse.’ – Dmitri Alperovitch

‘The Department of Defense is a longtime partner of the Department of Homeland Security, and I thank them for their support.’ – Kirstjen Nielsen

‘You name me a Super Bowl that had a pacifistic defense, and I’ll give you my paycheck. I’m serious. There aren’t any.’ – Mike Daniels

‘We want to be sure that both NATO’s territory and NATO soldiers are well protected. We need to make sure that there is the air defense and the air support for these forces in case that is necessary.’ – Kersti Kaljulaid

‘I don’t know what would happen if the media starts picking up a theme that Google is secretly building AI weapons or AI technologies to enable weapons for the defense industry.’ – Fei-Fei Li

‘If the men and women who protect the country are to succeed in the missions they are assigned, we simply must invest more in defense.’ – Mac Thornberry

‘Every time I’ve been offered a new job, I’ve automatically said, ‘Oh, I don’t think you want me for that job.’ It’s sort of a weird female – or, at least, it is in me – a weird female defense, when, in fact, what you want to do is scream, ‘Hooray, I want to do this!” – Joanna Coles

‘If I’m playing bad, then I know we’re not winning a lot of games, and we’re definitely not No. 1 in pass defense.’ – Chris Harris, Jr.

‘I know that if I am playing at an all-pro level, our defense is playing well.’ – Chris Harris, Jr.

‘Playing the nickel is something I’m very, very comfortable doing and I enjoy doing, but also, I know what me playing the safety position means to the entire defense.’ – Malcolm Jenkins

‘I want to know what coverage it is every single time. I want to line up and be able to read what the defense is trying to do to me so I can get open.’ – Doug Baldwin

‘Our most important job in Congress is to provide for our national defense, and therefore, every year, Congress allocates funds and determines defense priorities in a bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘Serving our district and military families is a tremendous honor, and as our work continues in Congress, I will continue fighting for a strong national defense.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘I was thrilled when I heard about the Time’s Up campaign’s legal defense fund for women who’ve experienced harassment and sexism. I’d been longing for this movement to extend beyond Hollywood.’ – Connie Britton

‘I’m excited about getting the opportunity to show people that I can play defense.’ – Trae Young

‘Bullies may land a punch. They might leave a mark. But they have never, not once, in the history of our United States, managed to match the strength and spirit of a people united in defense of their future.’ – Joe Kennedy III

‘Nonviolence as a lifestyle and perpetual strategy will allow us to be on the offense instead of continually on the defense. We will be able to move the ball down the field with team decisions and playmaking versus constantly thinking about how the opposing forces are moving the ball.’ – Bernice King

‘If the team needs to score, I’m going to score. If the team needs me to rebound, I’m going to rebound. Play defense, I play defense.’ – Michael Beasley

‘Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team’s defense.’ – Terry Rozier

‘When I get in there, I’m not really worried about scoring. I’m just worried about playing as hard defense as I can play, making my opponent work, and then I know the offensive end will open up for me. I’ve been a scorer all my life, so that’s what I try to pride myself on. It feels good.’ – Terry Rozier

‘There’s always going to be a way for me to go around a defense or play mind games and find a way to win.’ – Jalen Brunson

‘President Clinton’s support of the LGBT community and recognition that DOMA, the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, is unconstitutional and should be struck down shows that the political landscape continues to change in favor of LGBT equality. Leaders and allies like President Clinton are critical to moving our march for equality forward.’ – Wilson Cruz

‘I will not be a punching bag as part of anyone’s defense strategy.’ – Michael Cohen

‘Russian strategy seems to center on maintaining Putin’s popularity at home; building a strong military capacity in special forces, nuclear weapons, and advanced submarines; pressuring nearby nations to join various defense and customs pacts dominated by Russia; and pushing back on the U.S. wherever convenient.’ – James G. Stavridis

‘You can always work on improving your defense.’ – Tim Hardaway Jr.

‘A Trump presidency – neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration – would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.’ – Bret Stephens

‘The intelligent defense of free speech should not rest on the notion that we must tolerate every form of speech, no matter how offensive. It’s that we should lean toward greater tolerance for speech we dislike, and reserve our harshest penalties only for the worst offenders.’ – Bret Stephens

‘For the participants of whisper networks – often women – these networks hum below the surface. Whispers are take it or leave it. Whispers are a defense, not an offense.’ – Sarah Jeong

‘Reagan’s defense buildup and SDI, so ridiculed at the time, pressed Gorbachev, while his economy was collapsing, to make arms deals and improve relations with the West, which contributed to the unraveling of his empire.’ – Michael Beschloss

‘I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute.’ – Malcolm Nance

‘To get a FISA warrant to spy on a suspected spy, the feds go before a super-secret court located in a sealed room in the Department of Justice. With no defense lawyers present, they need only show probable cause that the target is an ‘agent of a foreign power’ engaged in intelligence gathering against the United States.’ – Benjamin Wittes

‘Broadly speaking, the problems with the Espionage Act are that it is hopelessly broad. And we tend to use the Espionage Act – we think about the Espionage Act as forbidding disclosures of classified information. That’s not really what the statute says. What the statute talks about is information related to the national defense.’ – Benjamin Wittes

‘Government lawyers, like private ones, face the problem routinely of aiding in the defense and development of positions in whose correctness they don’t believe.’ – Benjamin Wittes

‘Asteroid detection, tracking, and defense of our planet is something that NASA, its interagency partners, and the global community take very seriously.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘A big part of becoming a funny person was a major defense mechanism. Onstage, especially as a woman, I’ve had to be really tough. The second you show a crack, the audience can literally leave.’ – Amy Schumer

‘Ever since I was defense minister, I have participated in global meetings on the issue of climate and security.’ – Ali Bongo Ondimba

‘Our best line of defense, trying to keep this nation safe and secure, is an effective intelligence-gathering capability, with robust congressional oversight.’ – Richard Burr

‘I’ve been putting 100% of work into defense like I do hitting because that way I can help my team more.’ – Jose Altuve

‘Very few teachers or leaders in my small Michigan community ever discussed the issue of ‘The Catcher in the Rye,’ and certainly no one came to the 1951 Novel’s defense.’ – Richard Grenell

‘My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however you want to phrase that, is politics and government.’ – Ayanna Pressley

‘I like to score when I can, but if I can’t do that, I like to do the other things – defense, blocking, rebounding.’ – Giannis Antetokounmpo

‘I try to come in, try to defend, help on defense, play as hard as possible and do whatever my coach and my teammates tell me and try to listen and get better.’ – Giannis Antetokounmpo

‘Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.’ – Jeff Van Gundy

‘I think Marriaga is a very good opponent for me. It’s very hard when you have to find the keys to his defense. If people don’t understand boxing, they don’t know what he’s capable to do. I understand it all.’ – Vasyl Lomachenko

‘In a time when my entire family had already tapped into their retirement savings and taken out second mortgages, we were grateful when any supporters, including Trump, donated to my defense and spoke out about my innocence.’ – Amanda Knox

‘A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others – at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It’s not a reality.’ – Jimmy Butler

‘Defense is all about if you want to play or not, if you really take matchups personal. A lot of guys don’t. Once again, that’s the league that we’re in. That’s not the league that used to be.’ – Jimmy Butler

‘One thing I took – you know, especially from boxing at a young age – from my coach was, if you’re a jiu-jitsu guy, and you only cater your training to jiu-jitsu, there’s going to come a day and time in your career when you face a guy who is a great wrestler, has great takedown defense, and he’s going to make you look silly.’ – Brian Ortega

‘When you go, ‘Listen, I didn’t know. I didn’t know the rules.’ That works. That’s a good, solid defense. One time.’ – Chael Sonnen

‘If I was going to build a logical defense for myself in a match against Hulk Hogan, I think I would try to work on his legs. Take out any mobility.’ – Bret Hart

‘That’s one thing I pride myself a lot more now, playing defense, I do what the team needs me to do. If we need a stop, I’ll do it. That’s a major, major part of my game now.’ – Chris Bosh

‘If someone is not playing defense or not giving effort, that’s my specialty. I don’t hold back on my words.’ – Metta World Peace

‘I will be the defense attorney for all Italians.’ – Giuseppe Conte

‘Eating right is a natural defense against the sun. Sweet potatoes, dark chocolate, pomegranates, leafy greens, almonds, and teas all help against the sun. Otherwise, 100 SPF will do.’ – Stella Maxwell

‘We want to create a problem for the defense, a moment of indecision as they figure out how they want to play against whatever formation we may show. We get a slight edge this way. Also, we create the opportunity for a defense to make more mistakes.’ – Hank Stram

‘Many comedians and comedy writers have shared the childhood experience of learning to joke to protect themselves from neighborhood bullies when challenge or physical defense were not among the sensible options.’ – Steve Allen

‘I guess people looked at me in college, said I couldn’t shoot or play defense. I proved them wrong.’ – Jayson Tatum

‘You can’t afford to hop around and act like a kid when you have to get back on defense and worry about the other parts of the game. But at the end, when the buzzer sounds, you have the luxury of hopping around and looking foolish for a while.’ – John Stockton

‘If you start chasing around trying to get steals for your own benefit, then you really put your defense at a disadvantage. It’s not a big thing for me; if it happens, great.’ – John Stockton

‘You’ve got to be the anchor of the defense at that five position. Call out pick-and-rolls, screens. The five is usually around the rim, so you see everything.’ – Kyle Kuzma

‘The defense of our values and our identity requires regulation of the Islamic presence and Islamic organizations in Italy.’ – Matteo Salvini

‘I can do the little things, play defense, dive on the floor to get loose balls, things like that.’ – Rajon Rondo

‘When everyone touches the ball, it gives you energy and life on defense.’ – Rajon Rondo

‘I think I stand up more often than I should on defense. I’ve got to be solid and continue to get better.’ – Rajon Rondo

‘Most of the time, you’re just trying to be the point guard out there based on the play call and the defense that you’re getting; that really dictates where the football goes.’ – Alex Smith

‘I feel like I’ve matured in that area too, taking what the defense gives you, not trying to make too much. If it’s two, just stick your head in there, and drive to get the two.’ – Saquon Barkley

‘The more carries you get, the better you see the field, see the way that the defense is playing you.’ – Saquon Barkley

‘I love fast breaks, and I love playing full-court basketball, but offensively in the half court, I kind of take my time, let guys cut, and let the defense move. Then, if I have a move, I’ll go. If not, I’ll just hand it off to a teammate.’ – Mohamed Bamba

‘I still can improve a lot on my defense. I just have to keep perfecting my skills and keep progressing. You’re going to see a better Errol Spence next time I get in the ring.’ – Errol Spence Jr.

‘Consistency is what you want, especially from a defense on the road.’ – Khalil Mack

‘That’s something you want to preach throughout the whole defense – getting the ball back to the offense.’ – Khalil Mack

‘The establishment thinks we’re the bad guys, and we’re the radicals, but what they don’t realize is we’re actually the last line of defense. After us, it’s the pitchforks.’ – Cenk Uygur

‘Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts, they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts everywhere else in the budget.’ – Cenk Uygur

‘Because my business partner, Mitt Romney, was running for president when ‘Unintended Consequences’ was published, the media held up my book as a defense of the 1 percent.’ – Edward Conard

‘Playing defense, it was a tough job, but it was pretty simple: When the ball came off, get in the backfield and create havoc and find the ball carrier.’ – Booger McFarland

‘Each game helps me to continue improving, which is what I want. I want to improve in defense, on the ball, score more goals. I never want to get tired of improving.’ – Isco

‘You watch the great quarterbacks like Peyton Manning and Drew Brees and Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers. They all play so fast, but it’s under control because they know what the defense is presenting to them before it happens. It allows them to anticipate things a little quicker, and that makes all the difference in the world.’ – Matt LaFleur

‘I think when you have so many people working for American-based think tanks and American-based defense companies, there is always going to be a bent towards proposing American-led solutions for foreign problems. People get paid big money in Washington to come up with ways that America can fix problems overseas, and they are not always right.’ – Chris Murphy

‘In order to guarantee security in Europe, we need to strongly confront our defense policy in Europe. And we need a solution to our migration policy to secure the inner security of the E.U.’ – Sebastian Kurz

‘If we play defense the way we’re supposed to and we play defense the way we do here in practice, we should have no problems against most of the teams in the league, and other teams, it’ll be a great fight.’ – Karl-Anthony Towns

‘The defense will tell you who shoots the ball. If it comes down to them trying to take the ball out of my hands, I trust my teammates to go out there and make every shot.’ – Karl-Anthony Towns

‘Great players, they start becoming immune to what the defense does to them.’ – Kenny Smith

‘Defense, for me, is where I really love to put work in most. Defense is, in my mind, what wins games.’ – Manny Machado

‘There is no Benitez ‘method.’ We try to be more solid in defense without losing the quality in attack.’ – Rafael Benitez

‘As we get older, we tend to grow quite fond of the planets of belief we have constructed for ourselves. We build elaborate defense mechanisms to ward off attacks from competing ideas or new data. The system makes us comfortable but resistant to change, no matter how much change might be called for.’ – Sean M. Carroll

‘I have worked on my defense skills and played in the midfield as well. Coaches are preparing players to play at any given position.’ – Sandeep Singh

‘I’m afraid that it’s not possible to design a defense against every conceivable threat that you can think of.’ – Steven Weinberg

‘My defense is a criticism, but we won a national championship at Duke, so it wasn’t that bad.’ – Jahlil Okafor

‘Coach K was fine with the way I played defense.’ – Jahlil Okafor

‘While we teach our daughters about self defense, we should teach the sons about being respectful as well. A society cannot function properly if only one gender is rising. It has to be in tandem. It cannot be unequal. There has to be balance for upliftment.’ – Jennifer Winget

‘People choose to shut themselves off and build a load of defense mechanisms and not let anybody in because it’s easier that way. You don’t get hurt, and there’s less risk involved if you build this hard shell.’ – Emma Mackey

‘When we have a defensive situation in which we are conceding too many goals, it is not just a problem in the defense but the entire team, starting with the coach.’ – Luis Enrique

‘On social questions, national defense, economic issues, I’m a strong conservative.’ – George P. Bush

‘I don’t go into a game thinking I’m going to run more than I’m going to pass. So it just depends on what the defense is going to bring in the situation of the game and what happens that play.’ – Deshaun Watson

‘We need to play tough defense and have a sound offense. But mostly, we have to outrebound the other team.’ – Ben Howland

‘You have more control of things if you play defense. And you can control how you play defense, too, with effort and preparation.’ – Ben Howland

‘Typically, you’ll see that zones work better in November than in February. As the season goes on, teams get better and better at attacking zones, and it becomes harder to become an effective zone defense as the season progresses. But early on, it can be can good at times.’ – Ben Howland

‘Given the way Duke plays its offense and defense, in high school I was very interested in playing for Coach K. Then when you get there and see how good he is, you buy into it a hundred percent. He has a recipe for how to be successful on the court.’ – Christian Laettner

‘Marvin Williams is solid, and he can shoot, and he’ll definitely stretch the defense.’ – Kemba Walker

‘When I was elected as president, it was prohibited for any American or NATO officer even to enter our Ministry of Defense.’ – Petro Poroshenko

‘I had an affinity for criminal law because I came from that background. I understood it. A lot of lawyers of color understand the inequities of the system and become defense attorneys.’ – Sunny Hostin

‘In high school, you don’t play much defense. It’s mostly offense. In college, it’s vice versa, and that’s what I tried to do.’ – Donte DiVincenzo

‘Defense comes with defensive concepts.’ – Gilbert Arenas

‘If you have a defensive concept, you’re going to play defense. If you don’t have a defensive concept, and you have an offensive concept, then you’re going to play offense.’ – Gilbert Arenas

‘Why call out the champion in my first title defense? Because that’s who Henry Cejudo is.’ – Henry Cejudo

‘I really work on my defense a lot; that’s what makes me a good fighter.’ – Henry Cejudo

‘It’s a conscious effort for me to be aggressive and take what the defense gives you.’ – Jimmer Fredette

‘Sometimes it happens, especially if you’re a shooter. They say that you can’t play great defense.’ – Jimmer Fredette

‘I’ve had some difficulties, but I’ve also done some good things on defense. So it’s just all about effort… You’ve got to take it personal and work as hard as you can on that end of the floor.’ – Jimmer Fredette

‘I realize I have to continue to work on defense. I think a lot of people have to work on defense.’ – Jimmer Fredette

‘In college, I prided myself on defense and guarding the best player every night.’ – Malcolm Brogdon

‘Defense is about will and effort and a certain toughness you have to have.’ – Malcolm Brogdon

‘I always look forward to playing great players, great scorers, because I pride myself on my defense.’ – Malcolm Brogdon

‘I get a lot of front ball in a position that, normally, the opponent’s defense is making the move outwards, and our attackers are getting in.’ – Fabinho

‘The world is a scary place. Even my mother has suggested I take a self defense class.’ – Iliza Shlesinger

‘At the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a hawkish, nonpartisan research group, at least two people left over the way the think tank responded to Mr. Trump’s election.’ – Bari Weiss

‘You watch Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather fight, Floyd can just throw a few punches, or he can do a lot of defense; he can slip a few punches, let Conor get a few shots in. You can’t really do that in wrestling without getting scored on or putting yourself at risk.’ – Jordan Burroughs

‘To be really honest, I do not mind whether it is offense or defense. I just like being in on plays and doing what needs to be done to help us win.’ – Julian Edelman

‘I developed my game a lot and learned how to score off the dribble. I learned how to play team defense and one-on-one defense.’ – Khris Middleton

‘My main improvement on defense has just been my coaches. They’ve been teaching me defensive schemes, how to guard guys, and how to use my length.’ – Khris Middleton

‘Although the Premier League is tough because players have good physiques and can switch swiftly in offense and defense, it can be overcome after adapting to the league for a few months.’ – Park Ji-sung

‘Secretary Perry became the 19th secretary of defense and the first enlisted man to serve in that role. He had time in the highest ranks of the Pentagon and was instrumental in the dismantlement of the nuclear warheads in the United States and Russia. Throughout his career, he has devoted himself to protecting the interests of the nation.’ – Richard Lugar

‘My dad was an auto mechanic, but we moved to Fort Worth, where he worked in defense, building B-24s.’ – Roy Orbison

‘I don’t think the fact that something occurs in public or in private matters at all to obstruction of justice. I mean, if I publicly threaten the prosecutor who’s investigating me, I don’t think it’d be a particularly compelling defense to say, ‘Oh, I did it in public.” – Neal Katyal

‘Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States uprooted more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent, most of them American citizens, and confined them in internment camps. The Solicitor General was largely responsible for the defense of those policies.’ – Neal Katyal

‘The game changes when you play good defense and don’t come up with the ball.’ – Chris Mullin

‘I don’t really differentiate from big-time college basketball to any other kind of basketball. It’s basketball. It’s fundamentals and defense and shooting – they’re all the same.’ – Chris Mullin

‘What you do is build your team around your core. Some teams have one main guy – not many, but some do – and you build around that. If you have a bunch of good players, that’s another way to go about it – through depth, teamwork, defense, and fundamentals.’ – Chris Mullin

‘The biggest challenge is clearly China, in the years 2035 and beyond. I mean, the size of the country, its economy, and everything – they’re – it is a big strategic competitor for the entire Department of Defense and country.’ – Mark Esper

‘The National Defense Strategy remains our guiding document, and everything we do should support its stated objectives.’ – Mark Esper

‘It is an honor of a lifetime to be appointed secretary of defense and to lead the greatest military in history.’ – Mark Esper

‘President Trump has called on other nations to do more, and they have responded. By the end of 2020, our NATO allies will spend an additional $100 billion on defense, an unprecedented increase that will make the alliance stronger.’ – Mark Esper

‘Defense is natural. Defense is a reaction. Offense – you’ve gotta do the moves; you’ve gotta get it down pat.’ – Willie Cauley-Stein

‘Everybody knows that I can play defense. I’ve showed at times that I can score, but I just think they want to know, ‘How consistent are you in your moves?” – Willie Cauley-Stein

‘You’re a pick-and-pop guy sometimes. You can get rolling with what the defense gives you.’ – Willie Cauley-Stein

‘New York basketball is about defense.’ – Stephon Marbury

‘Back home, if you get scored on, you’re the weak link. When I started getting good, they were like, ‘If you’re going to play on our team when we go play pick-up, and you start getting scored on, we’re not going to let you play anymore.’ I started learning how to help other people out with my defense.’ – Iman Shumpert

‘I’ve started most of the time I’ve been in a Knick jersey, so I just think they want me to bring a certain energy every night. They want me to bring that defensive presence because they know I can make something out of nothing on defense, and I think they just want me to bring that defensive presence every day.’ – Iman Shumpert

‘Padoin is proving himself to be a great professional. He’s tactically intelligent, and it’s tough to play in front of the defense.’ – Massimiliano Allegri

‘You got to know what the defense looks for and use that against them.’ – Zach Ertz

‘Basketball, you’re not always going to have your best, but you find ways. If I’m not shooting well, I can pass, I can play defense. There’s other things I can do. I can take that to golf.’ – Gary Woodland

‘I have to say that every white-collar criminal defense lawyer knows when the chief financial officer turns state’s evidence, everyone in the executive suite is in a lot of trouble because the chief financial officer knows exactly where the money is coming and going.’ – Richard Painter

‘I think that my offense comes from what I do with my defense.’ – Luol Deng

‘Playing defense hard gets me going offensively.’ – Luol Deng

‘I love America for the freedom and equality it promises all of its citizens, the battles it has fought and won in defense of those values, and the peace and prosperity we enjoy.’ – Jack Schlossberg

‘There’s a lot of times I’ll just play too passive and since I’m not going to play defense as well as most guys can, I can’t get away with passive play.’ – John Isner

‘I’m ready to come out and show people I’m able to play defense.’ – Kevin Knox

‘You got to be able when you get the ball, slow it down, read the defense, call for a pick, and go off a pick-and-roll instead of going isolation all the time. Just be able to use that screen.’ – Kevin Knox

‘A lot of people say you can’t make the league if you can’t play defense, so I really play really good defense. That’s something I really pride myself on.’ – Kevin Knox

‘It’s not always fun. It burns inside to play defense. But you have to keep working and eventually defense is something you get used to.’ – Kevin Knox

‘I was one of the first senators to support marriage equality, and led the effort to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand

‘I trust my ability to play in any defense.’ – Eric Reid

‘I pride myself on knowing the defense.’ – Eric Reid

‘Going to Golden State, I really fine-tuned everything on defense, which is important because the NBA is moving away from standard bigs and going toward bigs that can switch and things like that.’ – JaVale McGee

‘The king of branding, Mr. Trump performs best when he is on the defense.’ – Mercedes Schlapp

‘In many ways I just did not fit the mold of a 1970s high tech innovator. I was not white, I was not working for the military or for a defense contractor, and I must have seemed too young and too naive to stand up for the truth.’ – Shiva Ayyadurai

‘I think there’s a lot of different ways to score points and win football games and be efficient offensively, just like there is on defense and special teams. That’s what makes this great game so special.’ – Tom Herman

‘You can’t win championships without playing great defense.’ – Tom Herman

‘It’s really hard to go on a 10-, 12-play drive against a really good defense and put the ball in the end zone.’ – Tom Herman

‘Because the world we live in is more dangerous than our parents’ was, and our children are set to inherit a world more dangerous than ours, Congress must get right our mandated mission to provide for the common defense of our country.’ – Will Hurd

‘Europe – and in particular Germany – must assume more responsibility. We must be ready to take on this responsibility and that has consequences domestically. That means, for example, we must be ready to spend more money on defense at home and abroad.’ – Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

‘I am convinced that we need a stronger Europe that acts in a common agreement on the most crucial issues. For me these are safety, defense, innovation and the aim to maintain our well being.’ – Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

‘I have always worked well within the federal agencies to ensure New Mexicans have the resources and tools they need to succeed and cultivated valuable, bi-partisan relationships over my time in Congress in order to ensure continued full funding of New Mexico’s state of the art national defense facilities and labs.’ – Michelle Lujan Grisham

‘Defensive guys don’t really understand. It’s totally different for offense. Defensive guys are convinced they know us but they just don’t understand. Quarterbacks have so much that they have to read and adjust to. They have to look at everybody on the defense. It’s totally different for the offense.’ – Frank Gore

‘I think the ’06 Ravens, if we woulda won a championship, would have been considered maybe the best of all time, because statistically, I think that defense led the NFL in more categories than any other defense in history.’ – Rex Ryan

‘Against our zone, even really good offensive teams take longer than usual to get into their patterns, maybe 30 seconds. So we’re locked into playing defense for that long… it’s hard to run on offense after you’ve been hunkering down on D for that long.’ – Jim Boeheim

‘The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.’ – Jim Boeheim

‘You can’t just limit yourself to underneath routes and let the defense kind of sit on those things.’ – Marcus Mariota

‘In truth, we are the only developed country on earth with a constitution that recognizes the God-given right to keep and bear arms, and the human right of individual armed defense of self, family, home and country.’ – Wayne LaPierre

‘Always remember Rahm Emanuel and those of his ilk who are opposed to our fundamental civil right to keep and bear arms when you donate to NRA-ILA or the NRA Civil Rights Legal Defense Fund.’ – Wayne LaPierre

‘You’ve probably heard from 100 different people that the Patriots are a game plan offense. Here’s what that means: We’re going to watch the defense specifically to identify their tendencies, what they do situationally and what their philosophy is.’ – Matt Cassel

‘With every look I can get and every defense I play against I get more experience.’ – Matt Cassel

‘The ’84 Bears were just like the ’85 Bears, they just didn’t win the Super Bowl. The defense was the same.’ – Archie Manning

‘When I played for the 49ers, we loved to see man-to-man defense. I could get the ball quickly to the receivers.’ – Steve Young

‘Not only generals can be politicians, and not only generals can be defense ministers.’ – Ayelet Shaked

‘Not only someone with epaulets can be defense minister. We’re in a democratic country.’ – Ayelet Shaked

‘President Trump is a defense lawyer’s worst nightmare – and a dream defendant for special counsel Robert Mueller.’ – Asha Rangappa

‘People see me scoring now, but I got drafted because of my defense.’ – Donovan Mitchell

‘I couldn’t shoot and I couldn’t score in high school. All I could do is dunk and play defense.’ – Donovan Mitchell

‘That’s the best thing about playing defense. I get to see somebody else but myself get mad.’ – Ken Griffey Jr.

‘Sometimes, you just have to take what the defense gives you.’ – Lamar Jackson

‘The secretary of defense makes recommendations, sometimes will make strong recommendations to the president of the United States. But the president, whoever it is at that time, decides, makes the call on whether or not to take that recommendation.’ – Lee Zeldin

‘It helps me get rebounds, I can see over the defense pretty easily, and yeah, I thank God he blessed me with height.’ – Lonzo Ball

‘Playing defense out here against grown men is physical.’ – Lonzo Ball

‘The left wants to protect social programs, the right wants to protect defense and intelligence spending and all the rest. I say the defense and intelligence world will be better off with a smaller budget. They would be less encumbered by bloat and able to maneuver the way they used to be able and not trip over themselves.’ – Erik Prince

‘I never intended to be a defense contractor in the first place.’ – Erik Prince

‘To me, the most fun games are where we get in the no-huddle, we get in kind of a groove and the defense has a Mike linebacker who can go no-huddle with you.’ – Philip Rivers

‘Gracie Jiu Jitsu is the most complete art of self defense there is out there. You don’t have to be strong. You don’t have to be fast.’ – Royce Gracie

‘It’s important to strengthen my body while also improving my shot. Shooting and defense are how I’ll make my living, so those are the areas I really have to work on.’ – Yuta Watanabe

”The Memphis Grizzlies’ are always a great defensive team and defense is one of my strengths, so I think that’s one thing that I can bring to this team.’ – Yuta Watanabe

‘I just play hard on the defensive end. For me, being a good defender is someone who plays very hard on defense and just tries hard.’ – Yuta Watanabe

‘When we get bad shots, it’s hard to rebound and it’s also harder to come back in transition defense.’ – Rudy Gobert

‘Defense is so important for helping your team win games and for the game in general.’ – Rudy Gobert

‘All the coaches preach about defense. Every day they talk about defense, they talk about how important it is to get stops in order to win basketball games.’ – Rudy Gobert

‘Obviously I think offensively, spacing for me as a guy that puts a lot of pressure on the rim is going to make it harder on a defense. They’re going to have to make tougher decisions, and space is going to be way more open for all the guards, too.’ – Rudy Gobert

‘Defense doesn’t sell as much as offense.’ – Rudy Gobert

‘You don’t have to think, you just have to play hard on defense.’ – Rudy Gobert

‘I mean, defense to me is something that when you watch a game you don’t really pay attention to defense unless you’re very – unless you’re a specialist.’ – Rudy Gobert

‘People watch the points, they watch the highlights. But the defense I think helps the offense.’ – Rudy Gobert

‘Defense doesn’t matter enough.’ – Rudy Gobert

‘The level of difficulty in most areas of MMA is very high. It’s a high learning curve. The footwork in boxing alone takes years to master. I will rely heavily on my amateur wrestling to get out of bad situations and take me from defense to offense. I’ll try to dictate the fight on my terms.’ – Jake Hager

‘Just as we need a productive warrior force to carry out our national defense mission, our national workforce must be equally able to carry out our economic mission.’ – Joe Sestak

‘The Democratic Party has been perceived to have a deficit of credibility on defense issues since the Vietnam War, unfairly or not.’ – Joe Sestak

‘I don’t get so much credit for my defense.’ – Nick Young

‘I do all the dirty work: play defense, grab rebounds, block shots and finish strong around the rim.’ – Andre Drummond

‘That’s the main thing on defense: focus, patience and staying as one unit.’ – Eric Bledsoe

‘When I was playing, it was me playing both ends of the floor, playing offense, playing defense and I gave the ball up with assists. It wasn’t like me doing one thing, scoring 25 and having three assists and one steal.’ – Gary Payton

‘Basketball has turned into an offensive-minded situation. They don’t play on both ends. They don’t play defense.’ – Gary Payton

‘When you play defense what happens is everybody pays attention and they start talking about how you’re the stopper, you can stop this guy. All of a sudden your game gets better on the offensive end and you become that versatile guard that everybody wants.’ – Gary Payton

‘One thing you know about playoff competition is this: If you have a hot quarterback and your defense can take the ball away, you don’t need to have a dominant defense anymore.’ – Herm Edwards

‘The job of the offense is not to score points. The job of the defense is not to stop the other team from scoring points.’ – Herm Edwards

‘You better not kick a field goal if you have a lousy defense.’ – Lee Corso

‘Really what we’ve done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.’ – Sean McDermott

‘I know my background was defense, but I’m not a defensive coach who wants to win 9-7 every week.’ – Sean McDermott

‘Regardless of what you do, or who you have, at the end of the day you have to be able to execute better than the defense does in order to score points.’ – Sean McDermott

‘I played defense in high school, so when the ball’s in the air I feel like it’s mine. No matter who it is or the situation, I feel like I’ve got to come down with the ball or at least knock it away.’ – DeAndre Hopkins

‘I don’t really worry about what the defense is trying to scheme to do against me. It really doesn’t matter.’ – DeAndre Hopkins

‘Oh, if I played in the All-Star game, I’m playing defense – hard for the first quarter. And I want to get a couple of dunks, too, like I do in a regular game.’ – DeAndre Jordan

‘My first, second, third, fourth and fifth priority is definitely defense. I want to be everywhere and help everybody.’ – DeAndre Jordan

‘Defense is my main priority, and offense is going to come second.’ – DeAndre Jordan

‘Defense all starts with the ball and the rim-protector is the last resort, the last line of defense. I take pride in that.’ – DeAndre Jordan

‘It’s like I was taught and I’m always saying it. Offense wins games, defense wins championships.’ – DeAndre Jordan

‘As the game goes on, I get better and I can see the defense getting tired. That gets me hyped.’ – Derrick Henry

‘You’ve got to know the defense by watching film and by how you’ve been coached. And then when you approach it, you’ve got to be real physical. You’ve got to deliver the blow, not let the blow be delivered to you.’ – Derrick Henry

‘I’m trying to run through you. I’m trying to make you feel everything that I’m bringing. That’s the mentality you have to have as a running back. The defense is trying to knock the mess out of you, and I’m trying to do the same.’ – Derrick Henry

‘That’s the attitude you have to have on defense. You have to want to hit. You have to want to be physical.’ – Derrick Henry

‘My approach is always the same against any defense.’ – Derrick Henry

‘I choose to believe that we are addicted to the rush of being offended, the idea of it, rather than believing we have become a nation of emasculated children whose only defense against an abyss of emotional agony is a trigger warning.’ – Jim Norton

‘If you’re athletic and you can run, you can play defense. It’s a mindset.’ – Andrew Wiggins

‘My father really put that in my head that defense is one of the key things in basketball.’ – Andrew Wiggins

‘I grew up playing defense all the time with my older brothers and the older players.’ – Andrew Wiggins

‘I think with defense especially, you have your core principles. If you do those consistently, then it’s easy to make, sort of, game-to-game adjustments. But, when you’re not doing your core principles consistently, you end up just guessing a lot. To be honest with you, that’s what bad teams do.’ – J. J. Redick

‘We have to let our defense dictate our offense.’ – Kyle Lowry

‘People in my organization were very outspoken about what we should be doing with the Department of Defense. One of them is work on autonomous weapons. That, to me, is something I don’t want to work on or have anything to do with.’ – Jeff Dean

‘Whatever the defense gives us, we’re going to take it.’ – Julio Jones

‘I believe I’m better than everybody when it comes to footwork, timing, reflexes, defense, you name it.’ – Mikey Garcia

‘Robert Whittaker is definitely a different fighter from when I fought him last. His takedown defense is ridiculous – ridiculous – and his cardio is out there. Like, the guy does not get tired.’ – Stephen Thompson

‘I’ve been on some really good teams, but we weren’t able to get over the hump. It’s offense, defense and special teams, and then the ball has to go your way.’ – Tony Gonzalez

‘You still have to be able to throw the ball and play good defense to win a championship.’ – Bill Cowher

‘We all understand football is entertainment. And people like high-scoring games. But you still have to play defense to win championships.’ – Bill Cowher

‘All the projects that coaches go through in the offseason are based on the success other teams had in every area whether it’s offense, defense or special teams. What they do is see if they can incorporate anything they see with the people they have.’ – Bill Cowher

‘Running in transition and scoring in transition, prevents you from setting your defense up on the other side.’ – Matt Barnes

‘I did play flag football. I actually got my lip busted. My team was really good; we won first place in the season, and won the Super Bowl. I was one of the defense guys. I was really good.’ – Chad Gilbert

‘When you put pressure on the paint, you not only score but you force the whole defense to collapse and you can make easy plays to hit shooters.’ – RJ Barrett

‘We as a country have something to learn from Israel, especially in the areas of security and defense, and we will of course be doing that.’ – Volodymyr Zelensky

‘In Serie A if you have an exceptional physique and you train very well you can destroy any opposing defense.’ – Christian Vieri

‘You can see that just with the passing, you can destroy the defense.’ – Nikola Jokic

‘In the NBA, it’s different. You must do everything. Defense, offense, shooting, everything. I wanted to prove myself here and I will prove myself here.’ – Nikola Jokic

‘Being able to make plays goes a lot, helps me navigate the defense and find open guys or score myself.’ – Pascal Siakam

‘We want to put pressure on the defense.’ – Derek Carr

‘We want to go 100 miles per hour and cause confusion for the defense. It can be a lot of fun.’ – Derek Carr

‘I try to take whatever the defense gives me, have a sense of urgency, know who’s guarding me and pick my spots, get my teammates involved and also attack the rim.’ – Brandon Ingram

‘It could be the best defender or the worst defender. I have to have the attitude that I don’t think anyone is going to deter me from getting to the basket. Maybe help defense can come over and affect it, but not the first guy.’ – Brandon Ingram

‘In street ball, you really don’t care about playing defense, unless it’s some kind of flashy steal or a big block where you bat the ball across the court, but all you’re really worried about is scoring.’ – Baron Davis

‘I shoot five or six times, go out and play defense and make sure everything is clicking. I’m like a transmission in a car. You can’t see me, but I make the car go.’ – Charles Oakley

‘You can’t just score more points than last year without playing defense.’ – Charles Oakley

‘Your offense might not be great every game, but defense is just about working hard and outworking your opponents.’ – Charles Oakley