Defense Quotes - Page 8

• Texas Gov. Rick Perry referred to the Mexican city of Juarez as the most dangerous city in America. In his defense, he probably just thought it was an American city because there were so many Mexicans there.

  Jay Leno

  Texas, Cities, America

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• We want to represent all the French people with ideas that are neither left nor right: patriotism, defense of the identity and sovereignty of the people. If a person like me is described as being extreme-left and extreme-right at the same time, then that isn't far off the mark.

  Marine Le Pen

  Ideas, People, Identity

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• The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

  Bobby Seale

  Party, Self, Black

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• Believe me, after the destruction of Chinese nuclear sites by our missiles, there won't be much time for the Americans to choose between the defense of their Chinese allies and peaceful co-existence with us.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  War, Believe, Peaceful

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• Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.

  Terry Rozier

  Team, Play, Important

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

  Tucker Max

  People, Psychological, Used

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• Notre Dame had a ... sorta... statistical defense.

  Bryan Fischer

  Dames, Notre Dame

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• As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

  Susan Rice

  Israel, Stronger, United States

  "Amb. Susan Rice, Rep. Mike Rogers discuss violence against Americans in the Middle East". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. September 16, 2012.

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• The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death of 50 million unborn children in the last 40 years. I don't think a civilization can long endure that does not have respect for all human life, born and not yet born. I believe there will come a time when we are all judged on whether or not we took a stand in defense of all life from the moment of conception until our last natural breath.

  Rand Paul

  Children, War, Believe

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• By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Government, People, Citizens

  Ezra Taft Benson (1986). “The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner”, Shadow Mountain

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• If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Cutting, Enough, Budgets

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• The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.

  John Lewis

  Military, Europe, Organization

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• For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

  Jim Jordan

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

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• If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, Cutting

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• The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

  Dick Gregory

  Peace, War, Home

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• Sometimes, you are going to give up a bucket, but defense is the key. That's the most important thing.

  Terry Rozier

  Giving Up, Keys, Important

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back : with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.

  Xavi

  Beautiful, Soccer, Team

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• Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the whole shifting tidal theater where I make small constructions, my metaphors, my defenses. Against which I play out theories, doubts, certainties bright as high tide in sunlight, which shift just as that brightness does, in fog or rain.

  Mark Doty

  Rain, Play, Fog

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• A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

  Robert Krulwich

  Fierce, Economics

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• Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

  Tyler Cowen

  Selfishness, Libertarian, Study

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• 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.

  Henning von Tresckow

  Giving Up, Men, Moral

  "Plotting Hitler's Death" by Joachim Fest, (зp. 289-290), 1944.

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• A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

  Tom Rachman

  Reading, Common, Articles

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• I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.

  Dorothy Day

  Jesus, War, Believe

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.51, A&C Black

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• The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.

  Vladimir Putin

  Anxiety, Ministry, Development

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• The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision.

  Frank Rich

  House, Three, Bob

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