Defense Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Children, School, People

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• I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

  Robert M. Gates

  Moving, Administration, Difficulty

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• I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

  Robert M. Gates

  Arguing, States, Bigger

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• The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.

  Robert M. Gates

  Country, Military, Reality

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• The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

  Eric Holder

  Taken, Law, People

  Address at Northwestern University Law School, delivered 5 March 2012, Chicago, IL

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• For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

  Abdallah II

  Thinking, Political, Challenges

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• I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.

  Stephanie Klein

  Fun, Hard Times, Want

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• You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Judging, Decision, Bars

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• There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.

  William Kristol

  Country, Strong, Patriotic

  "The Times Gives Kristol the Pink Slip" by Jacob Heilbrunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2009.

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• Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

  John McCain

  United States, Boxers, Today

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. October 18, 2010.

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• One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Country, Book, People

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• One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.

  David E. Kelley

  Ideas, People, Everyday

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• When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

  Robert Kagan

  Europe, Priorities, Challenges

  Robert Kagan (2007). “Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order”, p.4, Vintage

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• That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

  Luc Montagnier

  Important, Trying, Excellent

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• The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.

  Rachel Maddow

  Beautiful, Hug, Spy

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.6, Broadway Books

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

  Steve Mariucci

  Young, Quarterback, Wells

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• The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Impact, Population, Use

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• The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Obsolete

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• One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.

  John Poindexter

  Speaks Out, Community, Elements

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• You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

  Russell Pearce

  Government, People, Retreat

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• It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.

  Erik Qualman

  Jobs, Counter Culture, Together

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