Quotes About Defense

National security, both internal and external, is a challenge.

Our national security is inextricably linked to our relationship with, and military support for, Israel.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability.

Obama confuses collective action and defence through Nato with the integration at all costs and damn the consequences ideology that too often motivates the E.U.

We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

It is possible there will be much less support for NATO because there is a lot of identification of the United States with NATO.

I don't think Russia could start a war by attacking any of the NATO member states.

I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them.

We will continue to be a big contributor to NATO and our interests will be more secure.

NATO should demonstrate that it is capable of creating new forces which would protect its eastern flank. It would constitute an enormous change.

I don't believe Russia would attack a NATO country or NATO as such, no matter which country we are talking about.

We have every reason to put our trust in NATO and in transatlantic cooperation.

We made a clear commitment to NATO's two percent goal. I know that we can't get there from one day to the next, but I'm just as clear on the fact that we must get there in the end.

The scientific community needs to defend itself against political interference, no matter how cleverly it is concealed. If science is to come first, we don't have a choice as to whether to become politically active. If you're inactive, you're colluding in someone else's politics.

Helping companies and professors keep Moore's Law alive, DARPA reasoned, was crucial to America's military edge.

Members of Congress would no doubt have been furious had they learned that DARPA—ostensibly a defense agency—was wining and dining professors of computer science as they theorized about chip design. But it was efforts like these that shrank transistors, discovered new uses for semiconductors, drove new customers to buy them, and funded the subsequent generation of smaller transistors. When it came to semiconductor design, no country in the world had a better innovation ecosystem.

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.

The house is made up of the spirits of our ancestors. Did you think they would lie idly by while we were under attack? 'Cuz, yeah, didn't everybody's ancestors rise up and destroy enemies.

It was against her principles to allow anyone else to fight her battles and perhaps be injured or killed in her place.

My lifemate is the most beautiful woman on this earth to me. Anyone who says differently insults her, which is a capital offense and insults me.

But he has guns, Rikki," she reminded herself aloud. "A dog wouldn't have a gun.

No one likes lawyers until you need one, at which point they assume the raiment of knights.

Phobias are powerful vehicles for aggressive feelings. They condense anxiety. Intrusive phobias aren't part of general personalities, they just kick in at key moments. They're a defence against intense trauma, fear of intimacy, stuff like that.