Top 485 Defense Quotes

It’s really hard to go on a 10-, 12-play drive against a really good defense and put the ball in the end zone.

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.

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.

I’ve been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don’t go out and just run. There’s an offense and a defense.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

I trust my ability to play in any 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.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services – from movies to agriculture to national defense.

We want to put pressure on the defense.

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It’s imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

Defense of free markets is where we need to be when establishing a vision for national technology policy.

Part of my job is to make sure the Northeast is part of our defense industrial base, and New Jersey has always played a role.

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.

I think lawyers have a fidelity to the system itself that’s always got to be with them, and indeed, most of the defense lawyers I know observe that.

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard’s duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.

That was it – I lost my job… I was very discouraged. I wanted to be in defense work… I’m an American, and I have nothin’ to do with Japan, and so it’s sort of an insult to me.

‘The Memphis Grizzlies’ are always a great defensive team and defense is one of my strengths, so I think that’s one thing that I can bring to this team.

There’s something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world’s population, spends more than 50 percent of the world’s defense budgets. There’s something weird about it.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses’ interests, not the members.

I think cutting our defense capacity not only demonstrably diminishes our national security, but it has a tremendous negative impact in the long run on our economy because we end up having to fight wars and clean up after terrorist disasters.

With the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has an opportunity to implement real defense reforms without having a serious impact on immediate battlefield needs.

People in my organization were very outspoken about what we should be doing with the Department of Defense. One of them is work on autonomous weapons. That, to me, is something I don’t want to work on or have anything to do with.

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.

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

Spending an extra dollar on the D.C. public school system isn’t spending an extra dollar on education. Spending an extra dollar with the Pentagon doesn’t buy you an extra dollar on defense. Republicans need to look skeptically at military spending.

You still have to be able to throw the ball and play good defense to win a championship.

I still can improve a lot on my defense. I just have to keep perfecting my skills and keep progressing. You’re going to see a better Errol Spence next time I get in the ring.

There is no Benitez ‘method.’ We try to be more solid in defense without losing the quality in attack.

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

For the participants of whisper networks – often women – these networks hum below the surface. Whispers are take it or leave it. Whispers are a defense, not an offense.

Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Defense is superior to opulence.

Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.

Defense doesn’t matter enough.

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they’ve had a bad day.

Even though there wasn’t much damage, it’s a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

As the name of the agency suggests, ‘Department of Defense,’ the defense refers to the United States of America – not the defense of South Korea, not the defense of Ukraine, not the defense of Syria or Germany.

My thesis was a defense of our Constitution on the terms that the founding fathers wrote specifically in the Federalist Papers. They hoped that our form of government would draw forward men and women who are the wisest, most prudent, and most experienced.

In the NBA, it’s different. You must do everything. Defense, offense, shooting, everything. I wanted to prove myself here and I will prove myself here.

I believe in a strong national defense. But it’s my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn’t be involved in either area.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens.

Going back to the technical track of my life, note that I have been designing electronic products, both of the consumer and defense electronics variety, since Pluto was a pup. Many of these products broke new ground… creativity at work!

When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

I feel like I’ve matured in that area too, taking what the defense gives you, not trying to make too much. If it’s two, just stick your head in there, and drive to get the two.

I’m ready to come out and show people I’m able to play defense.

The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense.

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

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

From one week to the next, everything changes from who you’re playing to the defense’s scheme. You just try to build on the things that you did well and correct the things that you did poorly in the game; then, move forward from there and hopefully continue to get better and better and better as you move forward.

I think any player at any position their rookie year, they’re trying to figure out how to process all the information we give them, how to process what the defense is doing and then actually physically play the game and the position that they’re playing.