As an actor on sets, I've always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget.
In both the U.S. and Europe, the budget and balance sheet numbers do not work. When 'off-balance sheet' promises are taken into account, the U.S. and most countries of the Euro zone are insolvent.
The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.
The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.
And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter.
I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.
I can sing!" I say defensively adding, "Like a choking cat.
I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism.
Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.
I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.
Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.
In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.
The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.
I'm a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.
I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.
In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.
