We cannot allow anything that’s called ‘national defense’ to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don’t overspend and say, ‘Oh, that’s defense,’ when perhaps it isn’t. – Grover Norquist
As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway. – Gerhard Schroder
The defense of ObamaCare’s constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and this makes the health-care market unlike any other market. – John Podhoretz
However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers. – Bill Shuster
I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co’operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol. – Abraham Whipple
The LORD is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him. – The Bible Exodus 15:2
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? – Patrick Henry
There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense. – Noam Chomsky
But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense. – Don Nickles
If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible. – Don Nickles
