Defense Quotes

• One of the reasons why this country undertook military action in Iraq was that there are quite a few problems here, and perhaps attention needed to be deflected from those problems. It sometimes seems that the U.S. economy works successfully only if it gets a stimulus from the defense industry. So perhaps in addition to showing the power and the might of the United States internationally, another reason was to help the defense industry and to help the U.S. economy recover.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Problem
  • Sometimes
  • Military

• Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as ‘their home — their fortress.’ And good for them, I say. Well done!

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Done
  • Home
  • Figures

• I told our guys 'This is what we're built for', we just had to get stops on defense and stay within our offense.

  

  Andy Dalton
  • Defense
  • Stay
  • Offense

• The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

  

  Brenda Shoshanna
  • Defense
  • Responds

• We know our job. We are grinders and we are physical and we need to make their (defense) look back over their shoulders.

  

  Bob Boughner
  • Job
  • Defense
  • Grinders

• In order to continuously strengthen the defence of our country, it is necessary that we keep the military preparedness of all structures at a high level and perfect it day by day.

  

  Enver Hoxha
  • Military
  • Defense
  • Preparedness

• I think what Secretary Ash Carter is seeing, and I'm glad he is, is that we got to get NATO back working for the common defense. We've got to do more to support our partners in NATO, and we have to send a very clear message to Putin that this kind of belligerence, that this kind of testing of boundaries will have to be responded to. The best way to do that is to put more armor in, put more money from the Europeans in so they're actually contributing more to their own defense.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Secretary
  • NATO
  • Ash Carter

• In patients with histories of incest, the proportion of RA cells that are ready to pounce is larger than normal. This makes the immune system oversensitive to threat, so that it is prone to mount a defense when none is needed, even when this means attacking the body’s own cells. Our study showed that, on a deep level, the bodies of incest victims have trouble distinguishing between danger and safety. This means that the imprint of past trauma does not consist only of distorted perceptions of information coming from the outside; the organism itself also has a problem knowing how to feel safe.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Study
  • Patients
  • Attacking

• If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the ecosystem but for our population... we should be saving our old-growth forests as a matter of national defense.

  

  Paul Stamets
  • Defense
  • Forests
  • Fungi

• I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Bad
  • Team

• It may not be factually true that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but the saying has passed into common usage because the image has the ring of truth to it. Time and time again, the good and decent common people have manned the walls of the city, and have been ready to give their lives in its defense, only to discover too late that some silk-robed (expletive) has snuck out of the palace at midnight and thrown open the gates to the barbarians outside."

  

  Bill Whittle
  • Truth
  • Image
  • Discover

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

  

  David Farragut
  • Defense
  • Guns
  • Directed

• It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

  

  Homer
  • Country
  • Man
  • Fighting

• To me, a good running back is a good defense. A good running back helps you keep your defense off the field.

  

  Ezekiel Elliott
  • Defense
  • Helps
  • Running Backs

• 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
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Attacks

• I'm just trying to take what the defense gives me.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Trying
  • Defense

• We want in the UK to have a good trading relationship with the EU. I think that's in our interests, I think that's in their interests as well. I want to continue to be cooperating on criminal justice, on security and defense, with the EU, I think that's important for the safety of Europe.

  

  Theresa May
  • Relationship
  • Security
  • Interests

• He can provide offense, and yet he knows when he has to be relied on to play solid, physical defense.

  

  Walt Kyle
  • Defense
  • Offense
  • Relied On

• The whole NIT we're playing great defense, that's what we're trying to stress. We talked about, we can't hang our heads because we had injuries, we can't hang our heads because we're young. If you can head to the NIT Final Four, it means you're playing good basketball.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Basketball
  • Stress
  • Defense

• Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.

  

  Mike McCarthy
  • Games
  • Distance
  • Outcome

• Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.

  

  Steve Mariucci
  • Defense
  • Well
  • Quarterback

• Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.

  

  William Barclay
  • Community
  • Equality
  • Kings

• We have to stop thinking we're a good defense and start stepping up and do it. Two plays killed us. No excuses.

  

  Brian Urlacher
  • Defense
  • Stepping up

• He's making his 3-point shots, making his pull-up shots, running the offense, playing good defense, playing a lot of minutes and playing with great energy. I couldn't be happier with the way he's playing. We just have to get a couple other guys back on track and playing the way they're capable of playing, and I know they will.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Energy
  • Running
  • Playing

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