Quotes About Defense

We need a strong, vibrant economy to produce the tax revenue to fund our military.

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.

I would argue that in the cyber arena, the need for private sector partnership is higher than really anywhere else of any program we have. So, the reality is we couldn't do what we do without the private sector, and vice versa.

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

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.

The test for honest Americans or honest liberals is, are they going to defend a president they disagree with when he's being victimized.

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.

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.

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.

When we're the victims of insulting language and attacks, it's obviously going to evoke a response.

As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.

If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.

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.

When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.

My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.

The Democratic Party has been perceived to have a deficit of credibility on defense issues since the Vietnam War, unfairly or not.

We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.

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.

Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

The next time someone shoots at you… try ducking.

When one felt like a wasp, one's main inclination was to sting.

I'm armed and I'm ready to deal with a ghost, a man, his ex-girlfriend, or an assassin.

I wouldn't be comfortable, but at least I'd have marginal protection against pointy steel objects that went stab in the night.

Bodyguard work came easily to hobgoblins. When you're huge, furry, fanged, and yellow-eyed, you don't need much else as a deterrent.