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

My first, second, third, fourth and fifth priority is definitely defense. I want to be everywhere and help everybody.

I was no suffragette, but I was pretty sure the he-can’t-control-himself defense was a big, stinky load of horseshit.

Today, we are not likely to need to organize local militias for our defense now we have something called the Pentagon.

The National Defense Strategy remains our guiding document, and everything we do should support its stated objectives.

The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.

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.

For the longest time, it's always been Aaron Rodgers and the offense. It's nice to have a little notoriety on defense.

When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor.

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

We got Defense of Marriage Act as a federal law from President Bill Clinton. And it was passed with bipartisan support.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

I was one of the first senators to support marriage equality, and led the effort to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

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

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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

The job of the offense is not to score points. The job of the defense is not to stop the other team from scoring points.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.

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

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

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

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.

Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.

My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it.

Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.

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

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.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

Defense all starts with the ball and the rim-protector is the last resort, the last line of defense. I take pride in that.

The defense of our values and our identity requires regulation of the Islamic presence and Islamic organizations in Italy.

When I was elected as president, it was prohibited for any American or NATO officer even to enter our Ministry of Defense.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.

The Department of Defense is a longtime partner of the Department of Homeland Security, and I thank them for their support.

I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.

We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

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