Defense Quotes

You have to play defense, that's how you win.

Right is its own defense.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

Truth is the best defense.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.

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.

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

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.

Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.

That's how you win - pitching and defense.

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

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.

I always root for the defense.

Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.

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

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

Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.

Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.

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!

I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism.

Defense is superior to opulence.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

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

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.

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.