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The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country. ~ Donald Rumsfeld
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Donald Rumsfeld
During my time as CIA Director and Secretary of Defense, Hillary was a strong supporter of our efforts to protect our homeland, decimate al-Qaeda, and bring Osama bin Laden to justice. ~ Leon Panetta
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Leon Panetta
Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the "unknown knowns" in international security. Perhaps, however, there also exists a genuine but publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from the grave and feasting upon the entrails of the living. ~ Daniel Drezner
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Daniel Drezner
National Review once opined, many years ago, that, every year, the Nobel peace prize should go to the U.S. secretary of defense: The American military is the number-one guarantor of peace in the world. But maybe something like a Nobel freedom prize would be a more appropriate award for Reagan than a peace prize. ~ Jay Nordlinger
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Jay Nordlinger
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said any assumption that the US would not use force against North Korea would be a mistake. Such bellicosity frightens liberals. The left's reaction to nutty despots is: he might hit me, so I'll be nice. Rumsfeld's idea is: He'll hit me? Maybe I'll hit him. The beauty of that approach cannot be denied. ~ Ann Coulter
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Ann Coulter
In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from service during his draft-eligible years. ~ Charlie Savage
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Charlie Savage
I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday, ~ Harry Reid
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Harry Reid
On August 1, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel granted the CIA's request to begin water-boarding Abu Zubaydah. The technique, tantamount to torture, was designed to elicit confessions through the threat of imminent death by drowning. That same day John Yoo, now a deputy to Attorney General Ashcroft, advised the White House that the laws against torture did not apply to American interrogators. The president, the vice president, the secretary of defense, and the director of Central Intelligence approved. The ~ Tim Weiner
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Tim Weiner
Amoral leaders have a way of revealing the character of those around them. Sometimes what they reveal is inspiring. For example, James Mattis, the former secretary of defense, resigned over principle, a concept so alien to Mr. Trump that it took days for the president to realize what had happened, before he could start lying about the man. ~ James Comey
Secretary Of Defense quotes by James Comey
I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out. ~ Stuart Symington
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Stuart Symington
As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had. ~ Dick Cheney
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Dick Cheney
I'm done doing this!' Obama said, finally erupting. 'We've all agreed on a plan. And we're all going to stick to that plan. I haven't agreed to anything beyond that.'

The 30,000 was a 'hard cap,' he said forcefully. 'I don't want enablers to be used as wiggle room. The easy thing for me to do - politically - would actually be to say no' to the 30,000. Then he gestured out the Oval Office windows, across the Potomac, in the direction of the Pentagon. Referring to Gates and the uniformed military, he said. 'They think it's the opposite. I'd be perfectly happy -' He stopped mid-sentence. 'Nothing would make Rahm happier than if I said no to the 30,000.'

There was some subdued laughter.

'Rahm would tell me it'd be much easier to do what I want to do by saying no,' the president said. He could then focus on the domestic agenda that he wanted to be the heart of his presidency. The military did not understand. 'Politically, what these guys don't get is it'd be a lot easier for me to go out and give a speech saying, 'You know what? The American people are sick of this war, and we're going to get out of there. ~ Bob Woodward
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Bob Woodward
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. ~ Thomas Sowell
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Thomas Sowell
I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration. ~ Robert M. Gates
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Robert M. Gates
My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it. ~ John W. Vessey, Jr.
Secretary Of Defense quotes by John W. Vessey, Jr.
TV's Tony Snow becomes the White House press secretary. How will he make the difficult transition from Fox News reporter to Republican apologist? ... Mr. President, it is time to hire the folks who've never let you down. Limbaugh at Health and Human Services. Hannity at State. Then give Rummy the Medal of Freedom and install Bill O'Reilly as secretary of defense. Only problem, you might find yourself invading Vermont. And I'll replace Chertoff at Homeland Security. The man's done nothing to control the bear population. ~ Stephen Colbert
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Stephen Colbert
Harry Truman, after all, in conjunction with Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, radically cut back American arms following the end of the Second World War. Johnson himself wished to dismantle the Marine Corps and felt nuclear weapons had made all such conventional arms unnecessary. ~ Victor Davis Hanson
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Victor Davis Hanson
There are now reports that President Obama will name Massachusetts Senator John Kerry to be the next secretary of defense. Apparently this is part of America's new defense strategy to bore our enemies to death. ~ Jay Leno
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Jay Leno
During Richard Nixon's first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South's ability to defend itself. The result was a success - until Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time finish the job properly. ~ Melvin Laird
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Melvin Laird
In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security. ~ Solomon Ortiz
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Solomon Ortiz
The only thing that separates the Jews of Israel from the fate of the Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities in Iraq and Syria is the might of the Israel Defense Forces. Faced with murderous terrorists, Israelis are able to respond with F-16s, Merkava tanks, and one of the best-trained armies in the world. ~ Jay Sekulow
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Jay Sekulow
Invincibility is in oneself, and vulnerability is in the opponent. Invincibility is a matter of defense, vulnerability is a matter of attack. Therefore skillful warriors are able to be invincible, but they cannot cause opponents to be vulnerable. That is why it is said that victory is discerned and not manufactured. ~ Sun Tzu
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Sun Tzu
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration. ~ Ayn Rand
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Ayn Rand
To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed ... to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be perfectly harmless ... If the government be equitable; if it be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid to the education of children in knowledge and religion, few men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their amusement, and for the defense of themselves and their country. ~ Timothy Dwight V
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Timothy Dwight V
Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling. ~ John Wooden
Secretary Of Defense quotes by John Wooden
A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won't fall, burning, into the sea? ~ Rick Yancey
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Rick Yancey
I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one. ~ Richard Wright
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Richard Wright
I don't use the computer. But my secretary does. I want to take some computer courses because I'm interested in some of the access to some of the illegal things on the Internet. I'm just kidding. ~ Ahmet Ertegun
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Ahmet Ertegun
Gaia giveth even as she taketh away.

The warming of the global climate over the past century had melted permafrost and glaciers, shifted rainfall patterns, altered animal migratory routes, disrupted agriculture, drowned cities, and similarly necessitated a thousand thousand adjustments, recalibrations and hasty retreats. But humanity's unintentional experiment with the biosphere had also brought some benefits.

Now we could grow oysters in New England.

Six hundred years ago, oysters flourished as far north as the Hudson. Native Americans had accumulated vast middens of shells on the shores of what would become Manhattan. Then, prior to the industrial age, there was a small climate shift, and oysters vanished from those waters.

Now, however, the tasty bivalves were back, their range extending almost to Maine.

The commercial beds of the Cape Cod Archipelago produced shellfish as good as any from the heyday of Chesapeake Bay. Several large wikis maintained, regulated and harvested these beds, constituting a large share of the local economy.

But as anyone might have predicted, wherever a natural resource existed, sprawling and hard of defense, poachers would be found. ~ Paul Di Filippo
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Paul Di Filippo
I don't want to sound arrogant, but the defense might shut me down on one or two out of five plays, but I'll make them pay eventually. ~ Jeremy Shockey
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Jeremy Shockey
I agree with the secretary [Hillary Clinton] that I think what has to happen - and let me just mention what King Abdullah of Jordan said. I think he hit the nail on the head. ~ Hillary Clinton
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Hillary Clinton
Have you noticed how much lying we do in our relationships? We tell ourselves that it's not lying or it is excusable for purposes of self-defense. How little we realise that every lie digs us deeper into a painful delusion and we end up building war zones, not love boats. ~ Donna Goddard
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Donna Goddard
President Bush's campaign is now attacking John Kerry for throwing away some of his medals to protest the Vietnam War. Bush did not have any medals to throw away, but in his defense he did have all his services records thrown out. ~ Jay Leno
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Jay Leno
Instincts were his first line of defense. His body was his second. He trained it, kept it in fighting shape, just as he did any other weapon. ~ Pamela Clare
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Pamela Clare
The simple fact of the matter is that the Home Secretary has asked us to investigate what our Quaker friend chooses to call - for some strange reason of his own - "child prostitution". And whatever our personal feelings, it certainly won't damage our prospects of promotion if we come up with the result he desires. ~ Sally Spencer
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Sally Spencer
If he had never created Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston would be remembered for this experiment. He invented the lie detector test. A century on, it's still in use. It's also all over Wonder Woman. "Come, Elva, you'll have to take a lie detector test," Diana Prince tells Elva Dove, a secretary she suspects of spying, as she drags her down a hallway. "I'll ask you questions," Diana says, strapping Elva to the machine while Trevor looks on. "Answer truthfully or your blood pressure curve will go up. "Did you take that rubber report from the secret files?" Diana asks. "No, no!" Elva insists. "Well, I'll be jiggered," Trevor exclaims, reading the graph. "She is lying. ~ Jill Lepore
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Jill Lepore
Given man's nature, freedom will always be in jeopardy, and the only question that need concern each of us is if and how well we took our stand in its defense during the short period of time when we were potentially a part of the struggle. ~ Benjamin A. Rogge
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Benjamin A. Rogge
I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child. ~ Peter Gabriel
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Peter Gabriel
I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history. ~ Joe Manchin
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Joe Manchin
A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues. ~ Dick Cheney
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Dick Cheney
He had always disliked the people who encored a favorite air in an opera - "That just spoils it" had been his comment. But this now appeared to him as a principle of far wider application and deeper moment. This itch to have things over again, as if life were a film that could be unrolled twice or even made to work backward . . . was it possibly the root of all evil? No: of course the love of money was called that. But money itself - perhaps one valued it chiefly as a defense against chance, a security for being able to have things over again, a means of arresting the unrolling of the film. He ~ C.S. Lewis
Secretary Of Defense quotes by C.S. Lewis
[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society. ~ William Blackstone
Secretary Of Defense quotes by William Blackstone
Aikido is budo. The goal of aikido is the development of personal, social, and spiritual awareness, responsibility, and accountability through the discipline and practice of a martial art. Aikido, empty-handed and with weapons, is the training of the heart and mind for self-defense, if necessary, and for physical conditioning. ~ Phong Thong Dang
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Phong Thong Dang
Thimerosal is commonly used as an antiseptic/preservative in vaccines in the range of 1:10,000 to 1:20,000. Welsh's and Hunter's 1940 findings, applied to current thimerosal use in vaccines, lead to the conclusion that thimerosal completely inhibits phagocytosis in blood, one of the body's most vital immune defenses! ~ Jamie Murphy
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Jamie Murphy
They [Cops] were living in the media age, and in the media age, cops didn't get to fire their weapons. Cops were honored if they got themselves killed in the line of duty, but they were never suppose to draw their guns, not even in self-defense. ~ Lisa Gardner
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Lisa Gardner
I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars. ~ Rick Larsen
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Rick Larsen
The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union. ~ John P. Wheeler III
Secretary Of Defense quotes by John P. Wheeler III
But it was not in Mr. Gruber's nature to look for reasons. That was why he was an ideal secretary. He had been given much fancier assignments in the past. Find out by six in the evening whether Hubermann played any Tschaikovsky after the first intermission of his concert in Brussels last year. Produce a narwhal tusk at least five feet long by eight o'clock Thursday morning. Buy, in your own name, the Domino Motion Picture Theater in Zurich. On Wednesday afternoon between five and six in the Café Meteor in Budapest, slap the face of a character known as Ervin Kugyec. A good secretary does not look for reasons but gets results. ~ Lajos Zilahy
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Lajos Zilahy
5 mins after your birth, they decide your name, nationality, religion & sect & you spend rest of your life defending something you didn't choose. ~ Nilesh Jain
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Nilesh Jain
An obsession is a defense against feeling out of control. A compulsion is the failure of that defense. ~ Jill Alexander Essbaum
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. ~ Ariel Dorfman
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Ariel Dorfman
Evolutionarily, the function of attachment has been to protect the organism from danger. The attachment figure, an older, kinder, stronger, wiser other (Bowlby, 1982), functions as a safe base (Ainsworth et al., 1978), and is a presence that obviates fear and engenders a feeling of safety for the younger organism. The greater the feeling of safety, the wider the range of exploration and the more exuberant the exploratory drive (i.e., the higher the threshold before novelty turns into anxiety and fear). Thus, the fundamental tenet of attachment theory: security of attachment leads to an expanded range of exploration. Whereas fear constricts, safety expands the range of exploration. In the absence of dyadically constructed safety, the child has to contend with fear-potentiating aloneness. The child will devote energy to conservative, safety enhancing measures, that is, defense mechanisms, to compensate for what's missing. The focus on maintaining safety and managing fear drains energy from learning and exploration, stunts growth, and distorts personality development. ~ Daniel J. Siegel
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Daniel J. Siegel
Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that all of our Muslim American neighbors in this country are somehow our enemies here. They are our first line of defense. ~ Martin O'Malley
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Martin O'Malley
Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Secretary Of Defense quotes by George Bernard Shaw
Also, babe, you play hot secretary for me when I get home at the end of the day, and I'll have no need to do my real one. ~ Mia Sheridan
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Mia Sheridan
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense
is understood NOT as a failure of civil society,
to be mourned,
but as an act of citizenship,
to be vaunted,
there is little civilian life left. ~ Jill Lepore
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Jill Lepore
Anyone who thought this would be a weak point in the manor's defenses would have a rude surprise, shortly before coming down with a serious case of death. ~ Mercedes Lackey
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Mercedes Lackey
Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised. ~ Ravi Zacharias
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Ravi Zacharias
Great defense consists of 3 R's: read, react, and rotate. ~ Peter P. Carr
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Peter P. Carr
People do not build a defense around a strength but around a weakness. Regardless of the magnitude of this mighty defense, part of the addictive personality desperately wants to escape. ~ David W. Earle
Secretary Of Defense quotes by David W. Earle
I recollected that [the rattlesnake's] eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage. As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shown and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal. Conscious of this, she never wounds 'till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Benjamin Franklin
Over the last 30 odd years, Democrats have moved to the right and the right has moved into the mental hospital. So what we have is one perfectly good party for hedge fund managers, credit card companies, banks, defense contractors, big agriculture and the pharmaceutical lobby ... That's the Democrats. And they sit across the aisle from a small group of religious lunatics, flat-earthers and civil war re-enactors who mostly communicate by AM radio and call themselves the Republicans and who actually worry that Obama is a socialist. Socialist? He's not even a liberal. ~ Bill Maher
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Bill Maher
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you. ~ Michel De Montaigne
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Michel De Montaigne
Another scandal for Hillary Clinton - they're saying she used a private email address when she was secretary of state, which means the government couldn't archive and preserve her emails. Then Obama said, 'Don't worry, we saw them. We see everyone's emails.' ~ Jimmy Fallon
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Jimmy Fallon
Most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region. ~ Sarah-Patton Boyle
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Sarah-Patton Boyle
In defense of King, country, and family, he would unhesitatingly have sacrificed his virtue to Nessie, had that been required. If it was a question of Olivia marrying a man with syphilis and half the British army being exterminated in battle, versus himself experiencing a "personal interview" with Richard Caswell, though, he rather thought Olivia and the King had best look to their own devices. ~ Diana Gabaldon
Secretary Of Defense quotes by Diana Gabaldon
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