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Sometimes the funnier you are, the more vulnerable and scared you are underneath it all. So I think, for me, comedy was always a defense. It was a weapon so that you can't hurt me.

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.

Truth is the best defense.

I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

We as a country have something to learn from Israel, especially in the areas of security and defense, and we will of course be doing that.

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.

I think Marriaga is a very good opponent for me. It's very hard when you have to find the keys to his defense. If people don't understand boxing, they don't know what he's capable to do. I understand it all.

I bring toughness. I'm a leader. I bring defense as well.

I have the highest takedown defense in the entire welterweight division, maybe the second-highest on the UFC roster.

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.

My job is just to make the right play, read the defense, shoot if it's there, and make plays for my team.

Sometimes I relax on defense and not understand I can't do that. Night in and night out, you're playing some of the best point guards in the world. That's something I'm continuing to work on and continue to develop my lower body, get quicker and more explosive.

I have the speed. People said, 'Just hit the ball on the ground, slap the ball, just get on base.' But I wanted to be able to hit home runs. I wanted to be able to bunt, steal bases, play defense.

It's nice to not have to rely on one person, whether it's offense or defense, whatever it may be - get some production everywhere.

I'm excited about getting the opportunity to show people that I can play defense.

The president and the administration had a duty to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, but powerful constituencies of the president did not want the president to defend it. And unfortunately, politics trumped duty.

I'm a big defense hawk and a big fiscal conservative, but in this case, Pakistan continues to imprison the man who gave us Osama bin Laden and continue to have a major ideological bent within the middle echelons of their government that, I think, should cause all of us pause given the size and nature of their nuclear arsenal.