Defense Quotes - Page 37

• The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

  I. F. Stone

  Optimistic, Technology, Men

  I.F. Stone (1972). “Polemics and prophecies, 1967-1970”, Vintage Books USA

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• While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

  John L. Lewis

  Home, Intelligent, Men

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education

  Yvor Winters

  Book, Men, Literature

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• Installing a new offense is harder than a new defense. It just takes time.

  Joe Montana

  Harder, Take Time, Offense

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.

  Hank Haney

  Woods, Easy, Wells

  "It's not easy being Tiger". Interview with Scott T. Miller, www.espn.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

  Randy Forbes

  America, Space, Important

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• The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.

  Steve Buyer

  Obligation, Defenders, Nations

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• Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

  Chris Chocola

  September 11, World, Immigration

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• The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

  Ben Nighthorse Campbell

  Office, President, Cost

  "Senator Plans To Probe Clinton's Use Of White House Lawyers". www.cnn.com. April 4, 1998.

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• In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

  Helen Clark

  Government, Differences, Australia

  "New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark: In Search of a Nation's Soul". Interview, content.time.com. August 14, 2000.

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• Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Allies, United States, Analysis

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• Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.

  Stephen Cambone

  Years, Two, Community

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• I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Believe, Thinking, Innocent Person

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• I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

  Andy Dick

  Pain, Thinking, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

  Edward Dmytryk

  Party, Sacrifice, Careers

  Edward Dmytryk (1978). “It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living”, Crown

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• Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition; they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.

  Frank Gaffney

  Strong, America, Government

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• Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

  Henry Anatole Grunwald

  Perspective, Ornaments, Looks

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• My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.

  Peter Ackroyd

  People, Trying, Fiction

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• All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

  Steven Erikson

  Art, Self, Risk

  "Why Did You Bother Telling Me That?: Steven Erikson Talks with Peter Orullian". Interview with Peter Orullian, www.tor.com. August 13, 2012.

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• A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

  Vince Flynn

  Football, Team, Offense And Defense

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• 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.

  Vince Flynn

  Book, Lines, Firsts

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• Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Son, Order, Law

  Song: 57 Channels, Album: Human Touch, 1992

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• Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which society and nature, mind and body are kept in a state of permanent mobilization for the defense of this universe.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Character, Creating, Political

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

  Susan Sontag

  Military, Health, Medicine

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• To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for the marginal tax rate is to forget that people have burned witches, gone to war on a whim, risen to the defense of Joseph Stalin and believed Orson Welles when he told them over the radio that the Martians had landed.

  James Grant

  Business, War, People

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