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Defence Quotes


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


"I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world."


"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."


"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?"


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


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


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


"America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States."


"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."


"It is impossible to have a public trial if you can't guarantee the safety of witnesses, judges or defense counsel."


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


"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"


"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."


"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."


"Our Jawans have the full freedom to do as they deem appropriate. They have been answering and will continue to answer in an appropriate language. We are very proud of our Jawans for their courage."


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins."


"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."


"The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself."


"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."


"I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it."


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