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It's really interesting because I'm a Quaker... so it's been radical to me to be hired by the Department of Defense under contract.
For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.
In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.
I have worked on my defense skills and played in the midfield as well. Coaches are preparing players to play at any given position.
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.
If the team needs to score, I'm going to score. If the team needs me to rebound, I'm going to rebound. Play defense, I play defense.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.
The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
The role of the defense is to be an advocate for their client, regardless of whether he did it or not, within the bounds of the law.
Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said this week there's a good chance we never get bin Laden. bin Laden! We couldn't even get O.J.!
I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.
Gracie Jiu Jitsu is the most complete art of self defense there is out there. You don't have to be strong. You don't have to be fast.
If the men and women who protect the country are to succeed in the missions they are assigned, we simply must invest more in defense.
Only five NATO countries, including the United States, are currently meeting their minimum requirement to spend 2% of GDP on defense.
The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.
Before 9/11, our defense policy was based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights; we will never be an aggressor.
Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.
I have confidence in my players around me - my offensive line, my running backs, my wide receivers, and the defense and special teams.
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.
We have an obligation to ensure our service members are protected, our national defense is resilient, and our forces are well-equipped.
It's not always fun. It burns inside to play defense. But you have to keep working and eventually defense is something you get used to.
I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute.
The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.
Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.
I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.
But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.
After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.
It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.
The promise to share the burden of our defense has gone unfulfilled for too many for too long, and it erodes the very foundation of NATO.
I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.
The last four secretaries of defense have pointed out that defense spending creates jobs. So do pornography, prostitution, and narcotics.
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
The American people say, 'Don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense.' That's 84 percent of the federal budget.
We all understand football is entertainment. And people like high-scoring games. But you still have to play defense to win championships.
I think we will have to spend more on defense, for infrastructure, for extension of the broadband network and also for domestic security.
We as a country have something to learn from Israel, especially in the areas of security and defense, and we will of course be doing that.
When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.
As America prepared for war in 1941, discrimination largely shut black Americans out of job opportunities in the growing defense industry.
The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.
I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also, I know I was not a power hitter.
Anyone who is aware of his environment knows that the peril of physical assault does exist, and that it exists everywhere and at all times.
There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.
Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.
If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.
When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.