When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.
Batman doesn’t use a gun. When Bruce Wayne thinks he had to resort to a street thug’s level to defend himself and the girl he was rescuing, he decides he can’t be Batman anymore.
I’m going to be a guy who can defend a bunch of different positions.
Sometimes, when I was the only person of color in a room, you had to defend all the people of color everywhere.
You can’t defend the indefensible – anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
I am not going to be one of these guys who doesn’t defend his belt. I am going to defend my belt actively.
If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn’t be doing my duty as attorney general.
I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.
The genesis of Donald Trump’s relationship with Paul Manafort begins with Roy Cohn. That Roy Cohn: Joe McCarthy’s heavy-lidded henchman, lawyer to the Genovese family. During the ’70s, Trump and his father hired Cohn as their lawyer to defend the family against a housing discrimination suit.
Having kids is the deal-breaker on shyness! Once you have a baby, you learn to speak up loud and clear to protect them, defend them, and encourage them. I have three sons, so I’ve experienced that in triplicate.
That’s why we’re doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don’t have anything against it (Halloween), but it’s not our tradition.
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
I’m not a player to defend or run around. I want the ball.
I always believe, as a woman, it’s powerful to be able to pull your own body weight and be able to defend yourself.
I will not walk away from the people and communities whom I love deeply. I will continue to raise my voice for justice and equality for all, organize communities who want to defend the rights of black people, stand against policies that target and marginalize Muslims, and advocate for health care for all people.
Whether you like Kanye or not, there has been a character assassination against this guy. You don’t have to agree with everything he says, but you do have to defend his right to say it.
Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can’t leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.
For me, I will defend what’s right – not who I am speaking with at the time or who I think will back me.
I’m not a vegetarian, but while I don’t want to defend it, I try to be mindful about the amount of animal products I consume. I eat a lot of vegan meals at home, and I’m okay with paying more for higher quality meat and eggs as a tax.
Usually, a team of Claudio is really very solid. They usually defend very well, sometimes low, but very well.
Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire team coming back to try and defend our title again. I’m very proud of that.
Women are constantly being taught how to defend themselves against attack from men. I would like to shift the perception. I want to say that that responsibility should no longer rest on the shoulders of women alone.
According to the State of Florida, the person with the gun has the right to defend him or herself.
It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.
In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.
The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
It is tough to run for public office and face an opponent, to decide on issues what is the best thing, then face the criticism from colleagues, voters, the press and defend yourself.
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I’ll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.
The history of the Zionist enterprise is well-known: surrounded and outnumbered by hostile neighbours, the nascent Israel was forced to defend itself against invasion and certain destruction.
If Republicans want to defend the rights of corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited, secret money in campaigns, then they should say so.
I don’t really feel the need to defend myself for having a six-pack.
I have taken an oath already to the United States of America to protect and defend the Constitution. That is the only oath I will take.
I’m not the fastest player, but you can’t really play up on me because my handles are good enough where I can get around you. But you can’t play off of me, because I can shoot. And if smaller guys try to defend me, I’ll back them down. I’m a good post player.
When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.
As a nation, we must honor the service and sacrifice made by Service members – past and present – to defend our nation and protect the American way of life.
The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.
Maybe modern tactics mean that making the switch from defence to midfield is easier. Many years ago, full backs were more limited – you were just supposed to defend, and it didn’t matter if you could get forward too.
Having immigrated here when I was 3, I was grateful for the opportunities America provided and felt a duty to defend the ideals that make us the strongest nation in the world. I can’t imagine turning away anyone who shares that vision and has the drive and ability to serve.
I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn’t taken place, I cannot judge that.
For every champion, after you win the belt, you want to defend it as many times as possible.
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
I would be more angry if an animal were treated cruelly than people, because people can defend themselves.
While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
The UFC want me as their champion. The welterweight division needs me as its champion. It’s been static for too long. I’ll win the title, defend it a couple of times, and then move up to middleweight.
I guess I don’t try to justify climbing or defend it, because I can’t. I see climbing as a compulsion that, at its best, is no worse than many other compulsions – golf or stamp collecting or growing world-record pumpkins.
Being a black belt from the Nogueira brothers, I have the obligation to always defend myself well on the ground.
There’ll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
I have a clean conscience and ideals that I am willing to defend.
We’re Americans. It’s a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.
In the Senate, I will defend the protections in the Affordable Care Act, and expand health care to more Americans.
What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
I defend Israel’s right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Democracy must learn to defend itself.
I am sorry that Mr. Cheney, and every other supporter of enhanced interrogation techniques, has to defend the practices as if they were torture. They are not.
I have no arguments to defend how brutal and disturbing a ritual the corrida is. Like all tragedies, no matter the beauty created, there are no happy endings. If it is indeed an art form, bullfighting is the most disturbing I have ever witnessed.
