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source: "Economic Challenges: Past, Present, and Future". Speech at the Dallas Regional Chamber, Dallas, Texas, www.federalreserve.gov. April 07, 2010.

topic: Defense, Entitlement, Program, Social Security, Entitlement Programs

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

topic: Believe, Defense, Minorities, Amending The Constitution

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

source: "Senator Plans To Probe Clinton's Use Of White House Lawyers". www.cnn.com. April 4, 1998.

topic: Office, President, Defense

We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.

- Beth Moore

topic: Giving, Needs, Defense

We know about the Detroit offense with Calvin Johnson, the best receiver in the game. If this defense continues to play at this pace, they may have something to say about the NFC North.

- Bill Cowher

topic: Games, Play, Defense, Receiver

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

- Bill James

source: Bill James (1988). “The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract”, Random House Incorporated

topic: Baseball, Running, Defense

They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.

- Bill Laimbeer

topic: Basketball, Three, Defense

When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense

- Bill Walton

topic: Defense, Balls, Stomach

When things go wrong or dont 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

topic: Defense, Way, Good Intentions, When Things Go Wrong, Best Intentions

Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

- Bob Barr

topic: Defense, Firearms, Playing Defense

What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots

- Bobby Knight

topic: Basketball, Games, Defense

Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper

- Bobby Knight

topic: Basketball, Kids, Defense

Good basketball always starts with good defense!

- Bobby Knight

topic: Basketball, Defense, Good Basketball

Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Defense, Causes, Results

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

- Bryan Cranston

topic: Defense, Littles, Craziness, Craziness Of Life

Notre Dame had a ... sorta... statistical defense.

- Bryan Fischer

topic: Dames, Defense, Notre Dame

Defense is the first act of war.

- Byron Katie

topic: War, Defense, Firsts

The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be.The more we seek to shut him out, the better he must learn to become at breaking in.Each new level of security that we manage becomes no more than a stepping-stone for him who would surpass us, for he bases his next assault upon our best defenses.It is a ware that can never truly be wonâ€¦ but one we dare not lose.

- C.S. Friedman

source: C.S. Friedman (1999). “This Alien Shore”, p.32, Penguin

topic: Effort, Enemy, Defense

Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

- Calvin Trillin

source: Calvin Trillin (2009). “Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater”, p.64, Random House

topic: Giving, Vampire, Defense, Jewish Tradition, Heartburn

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

- Carl Jung

topic: Religion, Defense

The best form of defense is attack.

- Carl von Clausewitz

topic: Military, Defense, Form

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

- Carl von Clausewitz

topic: Defense, Blind, Aggressiveness

Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.

- Carlos Salinas de Gortari

topic: Love, Hate, Defense

I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on.

- Carmelo Anthony

topic: Basketball, Thinking, Defense

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

- Carrie Chapman Catt

topic: Prayer, Defense, Weapons, Offense And Defense

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

source: Catharine A. MacKinnon (2007). “Are Women Human?”, p.54, Harvard University Press

topic: Giving, Males, Defense, Multicultural, Postmodernism

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Secret, Defense, Literature

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

- Charles Bass

topic: Energy, Defense, Program, Counterintelligence

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

- Charles Eliot Norton

topic: War, Defense, Crime

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.

- Charles Evans Hughes

topic: Freedom, Liberty, Defense, Paine

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

- Charles I of England

topic: Apology, Defense, Politics

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

- Charles I of England

topic: Apology, Negativity, Defense

If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.

- Chester Himes

topic: Country, Racism, Defense, Defense Mechanisms, Anti Racist

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

- Christopher Dodd

topic: Goal, Defense, Firsts, Connecticut

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

- Christopher Lasch

topic: Defense, Definitions, Conviction

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

- Christopher Meloni

topic: Men, Defense, Fit

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

topic: Basketball, Player, Defense

The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.

- Clare Boothe Luce

topic: Powerful, Criticism, Defense

Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.

- Cornelia Meigs

source: Cornelia Meigs (1987). “Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women”, Scholastic

topic: Sorrow, Defense, Goes On, Life Goes On

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

- Dan Gelber

topic: Self, Defense, Judgment, Bad Behavior

There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.

- Dan Marino

topic: Soccer, Perfect, Defense

Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the "unknown knowns" in international security. Perhaps, however, there also exists a genuine but publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from the grave and feasting upon the entrails of the living.

- Daniel Drezner

topic: Zombie, Defense, Rising, Feasting

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

- David Byrne

topic: People, Defense, Use, Defence Mechanism, Defense Mechanisms

I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

- David E. Hoffman

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Defense

The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.

- David Farragut

topic: Gun, Fire, Defense

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

- David Gelernter

topic: Design, Defense, Complexity

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

- David Korten

topic: Defense, Excess, Study, Brainwashing

Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

- David Robinson

topic: Basketball, What Matters, Defense

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Self, Defense, Sin

There has never been a great 'silent' defense

- Del Harris

topic: Basketball, Defense, Silent

That's how you win - pitching and defense.

- Derek Jeter

topic: Sports, Winning, Defense

Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde.

- Diana Trilling

topic: Running, Defense, Trials, Backlash

We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

- Dick Bennett

topic: Basketball, Coaching, Defense

It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.

- Diodorus Siculus

topic: Country, People, Defense

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

- Doc Rivers

topic: Basketball, Talking, Defense, Playing Basketball, Playing Defense

If you're a great defensive player, you're a great defensive player 100% of the time. You can't be a great defensive player half of the time because you didn't get the ball once or twice. That can't sidetrack you. It's got to be 'I live for my defense, and my offense I'll get. But I can't let it affect my defense. Nothing affects my defense.'

- Doc Rivers

topic: Player, Defense, Balls

A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims." That is not a universal judgment today.

- Don Kates

topic: Life, Self, Defense, Deadly Force

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

topic: Responsibility, Government, Defense, Federal Government

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

- Douglas William Jerrold

source: "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th ed, 1919.

topic: Self, Law, Defense

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

topic: War, Trying, Defense, How Far You Can Go

I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.

- Eddie Sutton

topic: Thinking, Differences, Defense

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Education, Defense

The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

- Edward Bernays

source: "The Father of Spin". Book by Larry Tye, p. 102, 1998.

topic: Defense, Propaganda

Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.

- Edward Rutledge

source: "John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina". Book by James Haw, p. 269, 1997.

topic: Defense, Posture, Firm, Exertion

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

- Elizabeth Moon

topic: Past, Defense, Fantasy

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

- Elyn Saks

source: "A tale of mental illness — from the inside". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June, 2012.

topic: Powerful, Mind, Defense, Complex Problems

She lifted her head. "It's easier," she said, slowly, "to be angry on someone else's behalf than on my own. And yet I find I have a well of anger in me, that I have been filling for years from my own hurts. If I spill it out in defense of another, I can deny it's mine.

- Emma Bull

topic: Hurt, Years, Defense

Defense wins championships. A good offense is beat by a good defense, always.

- Eric Bolling

topic: Winning, Defense, Championship

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

- Erwin W. Lutzer

source: Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.77, Moody Publishers

topic: Self, Grace, Defense, Self Righteousness, Candidates

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

- Eugene McCarthy

topic: War, Defense, National Defense

By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator.

- Ezra Taft Benson

topic: Government, People, Defense, Involuntary, Acts Of Charity

Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense

- Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

topic: Games, Soul, Defense

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

- Frank B. Kellogg

topic: Defense, Adequate, Century

I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism.

- Frank Buchman

source: New York World-Telegram 26 Aug. 1936

topic: Men, Heaven, Defense, Anti Christ

These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.

- Frank Iero

topic: Artist, Defense, Lasts

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

- Frank Oz

source: "Fictional character: Yoda". "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back", www.imdb.com. 1980.

topic: Defense, Use, Force, Jedi Knights, Strike Back

The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision.

- Frank Rich

topic: House, Three, Defense, Three Strikes

It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers

- Fred Brooks

topic: Jobs, Data, Defense, Plausible

There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.

- Fred Phelps

topic: Mean, Scary, Defense

But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

- Gangaji

topic: Reflection, Self, Defense, Healer, Identifying

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

- Garry Shandling

topic: Survival, Defense, Able, Defense Mechanisms

There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself

- Gene Sharp

topic: Strong, Defense, Pressure, Coups

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

- Georg Buchner

source: "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

topic: Self, Defense, Murder

You know, I know, all of us know that the time factor is the vital consideration - and vital is the correct meaning of the term - of our national defense program; that we must never be caught in the same situation we found ourselves in 1917.

- George C. Marshall

topic: Military, Defense, Consideration, National Defense

No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.

- George Carlin

topic: Laughing, Defense, Moments

The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.

- George F. Kennan

topic: Defense, Nuclear, Purpose, Nuclear Bomb

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

- George P. Shultz

topic: Defense, Vigilance, Price Of Freedom

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

- George S. Patton

topic: War, Soul, Defense

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

- George Wald

topic: Twelve, Defense, Gross

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

- George Wald

topic: Thinking, Defense, Nuclear

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

topic: War, Defense, Sides

We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

- George Wald

topic: War, Defense, World

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

- George Washington

topic: Defense, Care, Posture

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

- Geraldo Rivera

topic: Defense, Literature, Virtue, Zionism

When there are no avenues of escape or one is caught even before any attempt to escape can be made, then for the first time the use of self-defense techniques should be considered. Even at times like these, do not show any intention of attacking, but first let the attacker become careless. At that time attack him concentrating one's whole strength in one blow to a vital point and in the moment of surprise, escape and seek shelter and help.

- Gichin Funakoshi

topic: Blow, Self, Defense, Times Like These, Avenues

When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.

- Gilbert Arenas

topic: Defense, Looks, Matter

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

topic: President, United States, Defense, 50th Anniversary

My last defense / Is the present tense.

- Gwendolyn Brooks

topic: Live In The Moment, Defense, Lasts, Present Tense

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

source: "It's not easy being Tiger". Interview with Scott T. Miller, www.espn.com. December 6, 2012.

topic: Defense, Woods, Easy

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

topic: Pride, Defense

A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.

- Henning von Tresckow

source: "Plotting Hitler's Death" by Joachim Fest, (зp. 289-290), 1944.

topic: Giving Up, Men, Defense, Ready To Give Up

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 Anatole Grunwald

topic: Perspective, Ornaments, Defense, Libel, Civilized Society

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

- Henry James

topic: Defense

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

- Henry R. Luce

topic: Reading, Past, Defense, Lessons Of The Past, Great Future

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

source: Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mean, Views, Defense

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

- Homer

topic: Country, Fighting, Defense, Omen

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

topic: Opportunity, People, Defense

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

- Ice T

topic: Bears, Defense, Arms

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

- Ida B. Wells

topic: Gun, Self, Defense, Afros

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

- Irvin S. Cobb

topic: Funeral, Eulogy, Defense, Belated

In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

- J. L. Austin

topic: Responsibility, Reality, Defense

The best defense is a good offense.

- Jack Dempsey

topic: Defense, Offense, Offense And Defense

Winning is more related to good defense than good offense

- Jack Ramsay

topic: Basketball, Winning, Defense

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.

- Jack Scalia

topic: Baby, Firefighter, Defense

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

topic: Defense, Nuclear, Weapons, Proliferation, Missile Defense

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

topic: Home, Police, Defense, Police Department, Pro Gun Control

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

- James Monroe

source: James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

topic: Gun, Self, Defense, Right To Bear Arms

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

- James Q. Wilson

topic: Power, Government, Defense

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense was an appeal to the authority of veterans who supported him-one of whom has now been revealed to have received a medal he doesn't deserve. This doesn't prove the Kerry detractors were right, but it certainly doesn't weaken their case.

- James Taranto

topic: Defense, Veteran, Boat

I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

- Janet Evanovich

topic: Running, Insanity, Defense, Incidence, Temporary Insanity

Every fascist state like Germany, France, or modern Poland takes away citizen's right to self-defense. Fascist Americans such as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton want to take arms away from American society.

- Janusz Korwin-Mikke

source: tvn24.pl, July 05, 2008.

topic: Self, Germany, Defense, Poland

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

topic: Bridges, Defense, Cost

Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.

- Jean Shepherd

source: Jean Shepherd (1983). “A Christmas Story: A Play in Two Acts”, p.34, Dramatic Publishing

topic: Defense, Slugs, Randy

The perfect fight is one that is over before the loser really understands what is going on. The perfect defense is a counterattack that succeeds before the assailant discovers that he has bitten off more than he can chew.

- Jeff Cooper

topic: Fighting, Perfect, Defense

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

- Jefferson Davis

topic: War, Sadness, Defense

When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.

- Jill Lepore

source: "Battleground America". www.newyorker.com. April 23, 2012.

topic: Self, Defense, Littles, Concealed Weapons

Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

- Jim Fergus

source: Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.74, Macmillan

topic: Laughing, Tears, Defense

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

topic: Defense, Satisfaction, Sides, Defense Attorneys, Acquittal

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

- Jim Harrison

topic: Defense, World, Crafts

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

- Jim Talent

topic: Army, Needs, Defense

From my point of view the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and therefore, no Anarchist can commit such deeds. It is the very opposite of what Anarchism stands for...

- Jo Labadie

source: "Anarchism and Crime" by Joseph Labadie, 1932.

topic: Views, Opposites, Defense

One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.

- Joan Didion

topic: Mean, Defense, Matter

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

- Joanne Greenberg

topic: Suicide, Defense, Lasts

An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Apology, Defense

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

- Joe Bastianich

topic: Blood, Defense, Lines, Pantry, Blood Pressure

There is no defense against a base on balls.

- Joe Garagiola

topic: Baseball, Defense, Balls

I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.

- Joe Lieberman

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Independent, Defense, Republican, Domestic Policy

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

topic: Deployment, Support, Defense, Missile Defense, Common Defense

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

- Joe Lieberman

topic: Party, Cutting, Defense, Democratic Party

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

- Joe Montana

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Defense, Harder, Take Time

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

- John Bolton

topic: Abuse, Defense, Waste

Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.

- John Foster Dulles

source: John Foster Dulles (1954). “Evolution of Foreign Policy: Text of Speech by John Foster Dulles Secretary of State Before the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, N.Y., January 12, 1954”

topic: Land, Important, Defense, Deterrent

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

source: John Hersey (1960). “The Child Buyer”

topic: Children, Vision, Defense, Fabricate

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

topic: Community, Defense, Elements, Homeland Security, Department Of Homeland Security

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: War, Preparation, Defense

Anne Arundel County has become the world's epicenter of military intelligence and defense-related information technology.

- John R. Leopold

topic: Military, Technology, Defense, County, Military Intelligence

The masks we wear are simply veils that we have chosen to hide behind in order to get our way, or to demonstrate how we are reacting to the powers and forces that seem to influence us from the external world. They are part of our self image, and in some cases the mask is nothing more than a protective device, a defense mechanism.

- John Randolph Price

topic: Self, Order, Defense, Defense Mechanisms

There will always be people who have power over me, who can destroy my spirit and drain my soul. My best defense is to behave as if I have no soul, to act as if my spirit has already been crushed. Perhaps then, I will be left alone or ignored.

- John S. Hall

topic: People, Soul, Defense

My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions

- John Wooden

topic: Basketball, Philosophy, Defense

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

- Johnnie Cochran

source: "A Lawyer's Life".

topic: Defense, Prison, Should

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

- Jon Huntsman, Jr.

topic: Cutting, Defense, Enough

Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment.

- Joseph A. Schumpeter

topic: Judging, Pockets, Defense, Indictment

There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Greatness, Defense, Obscurity

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

- Joseph Sobran

topic: Government, Liberty, Defense, Purpose Of Government, Great Libertarian

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

topic: Fun, Kids, Defense, Defence Mechanism, Defense Mechanisms

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

- Juhani Pallasmaa

source: "Encounters: Architectural Essays". Book by Juhani Pallasmaa, 2006.

topic: Tasks, Defense, Architecture

Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.

- Karl Donitz

source: Said to Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

topic: Defense, Admiration, Staff, Chief Of Staff

[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.

- Karl Mannheim

source: Karl Mannheim (1936). “Ideology and utopia: an introduction to the sociology of knowledge”

topic: Discipline, Hens, Defense, Defense Mechanisms

February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.

- Katherine Paterson

topic: Defense, February, Malicious

'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.

- Keith Sullivan

topic: Love, Interesting, Defense, World Love

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.

- Kenneth Rexroth

source: Kenneth Rexroth (1970). “The alternative society: essays from the other world”

topic: Creative, Defense, World

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

topic: Men, Black, Defense

While there are still imperialist aggressors, the state that has no defense power of its own to protect its sovereignty against the internal and external enemies is, in fact, not a fully independent and sovereign state.

- Kim Il-sung

source: "On Some Problems of Our Party's Juche Idea and the Government of the Republic's Internal and External Policies". Mainichi Shimbun, September 17, 1972.

topic: Independent, Enemy, Defense

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

- Kim Jong Il

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Defense, Sacred, National Defense

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

- Kim Stanley

topic: Despair, Defense, Patterns

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

- Kofi Annan

source: FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Jun 05, 2016

topic: Peace, Names, Defense, Defense Spending, Peace Building