Quotes of: Defense-budget Keyword

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

Steve Buyer

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

Robert M. Gates

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Mignon McLaughlin

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

Chuck Connors

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

John Boorman

We're not hitting on all cylinders, defensively. When we're playing good, I'll let you know.

Tony Dungy

Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.

Louise Gluck

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Malcolm X

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

Uma Thurman

I feel defensive about my character because I really love Andrea, and we share the same heart.

Laurie Holden

Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

Francesca Annis

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

Irvin S. Cobb

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

Bill Kristol

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Helen Hunt Jackson

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

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Red Auerbach

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

Vince Lombardi

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

Bryan Cranston

Alain Badiou was once seated amongst the public in a room where I was delivering a talk, when his cellphone (which, to add insult to injury, was mine -- I had lent it to him) all of a sudden started to ring. Instead of turning it off, he gently inter...

In Defense of Lost Causes

Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has soared? In 1960 Americans spent 17.5 percent of their income on food and 5.2 percent of national income on health care. Since then, tho...

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

Frank Gehry