#defense

Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby. ↗

— Jack Scalia

#defense #firefighters #last #line #our

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#completing #defense #found #get #grew

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#concerned #consultation #defense #far #missile

There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#defense #defense budget #expenditures #force #gap

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#any #defense #exists #idea #institution

If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts. ↗

— William Thomas

#defense #going #hard #just #playing

Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#criminal-law #defense #evidence #guilt #innocence

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#defense #forgiveness #love #truth #anger

Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature? ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#men #protectiveness #men

This is a touch game. There are times when you've got to play hurt when you've got to block out the pain. ↗

— Sherry Argov

#hurt #love #pain #love