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We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism. – Patrick J. Buchanan	added by Normando 5 months ago
It's a tragedy when people will defend the use of harmful drugs, alcohol, sex, obnoxious parties, but they won't defend integrity and justice. – Ryan Pack	added by littleking 10 months ago
The day I realized I was too weak to defend justice is the day I realized I needed to become a warrior. – Ryan Pack	added by littleking 11 months ago
A core problem with A.I. in the military and in national security is how do you defend against attacks that are faster than human decision-making, and I think that issue is unresolved. In other words, the missile is coming in so fast that there has to be an automatic response. What happens if it’s a false signal ? – Eric Schmidt	Found on New York Times 1 year ago
Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they’ve had to defend democracy. Stand up for our personal freedoms. Stand up for the right to vote and our civil rights, and this is our moment. – Landov Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re under attack from all directions, we stopped fighting and the other side did not, which put us in a predicament and we had to keep fighting to defend ourselves. – Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are disappointed in the verdict both as it relates to Daniel Perry and as it relates to a citizen’s ability to defend themselves, sgt. Perry will, of course, appeal the verdict and we are hopeful that the case will ultimately be overturned on appeal. – Clint Broden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We believe this is our responsibility to go once again called to the flag of the nation to stop this madness to defend Israel. – Yiftach Golov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We don’t have to defend Adani, BJP never defends Adani, but BJP doesn’t target anyone either. – Ravi Shankar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As President Biden has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing, no group will strike our troops with impunity. – Lloyd Austin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Times’s coverage of Donald Trump’s taxes helped inform the public through meticulous reporting on a subject of overriding public interest, this lawsuit is an attempt to silence independent news organizations and we plan to vigorously defend against it. – New York	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Nations around the world continue to stand with Ukraine, because we all recognize that if we abandon Ukraine, we abandon the UN Charter itself, and the principles and rules that make all our countries safer and more secure: No seizing land by force. No erasing another country’s borders. No targeting civilians in war, if we do not defend these basic principles, we invite a world in which might makes right, the strong dominate the weak. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In our heart, Motherland and family is the same, the people standing here made a decision to defend the most sacred of what we have – family and Motherland. – Vladimir Putin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Instead of doubting or worrying about other people’s technologies, it would be better to think more deeply about countermeasures to defend yourself. – Kim Jong	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It will be the government’s burden to defend it in court, and Tennessee, like Alabama, like Texas, like Arkansas, will not be able to do so. – Chase Strangio	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is our Europe, these are our rules, this is our way of life. And for Ukraine, it’s a way home, a way to its home, i am here in order to defend our people’s way home. – Olivier Matthys/AP Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They can tell this government that this modus operandi doesn’t work. You can’t keep pushing Palestinians like that. You can’t have more than 30 Palestinians killed in less than a month [as has happened in January]. You can’t demolish homes – that will expel families – and [impose] collective punishment measures, it won’t be long before Palestinians say, ‘You know what, we have to also organize and defend ourselves … nobody’s there to help us. So we’re going to do it ourselves.’ When you get there, nobody can put a lid on that. – Nour Odeh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It won’t be long before Palestinians say, ‘You know what, we have to also organize and defend ourselves … nobody’s there to help us. So we’re going to do it ourselves.’ When you get there, nobody can put a lid on that. – Nour Odeh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have to close our sky, to defend our sky, that’s priority number one. After that, we need to get more armed vehicles, tanks, artillery systems, UAVs, etc. etc. We have people, but we need weaponry. – Oleksii Reznikov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Kevin McCarthy just kicked me and @RepSwalwell off the Intelligence Committee, this is petty, political payback for investigating Donald Trump. If he thinks this will stop me, he will soon find out just how wrong he is. I will always defend our democracy. – Kevin McCarthy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Mr. Peña and I look forward to a full and fair investigation of these claims, i plan to fully defend Mr. Peña and fiercely safeguard his rights throughout this process. – Roberta Yurcic	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Mr. Peña is presumed innocent of the charges against him, mr. Peña and I look forward to a full and fair investigation of these claims. I plan to fully defend Mr. Peña and fiercely safeguard his rights throughout this process. – Roberta Yurcic	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is important, it is an emergency, you need to break the glass, you really do need to take it up, and then we’re going to have an additional investigation, while that’s why I filed the articles, you can always just sit on them and not do anything with them. That starts the ball rolling, we’re going to give Mayorkas the opportunity to defend himself and his department. – Pete Fallon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This order is procedurally bizarre, in that it agrees to a request to freeze a district court ruling by states that weren’t even parties to that decision solely to decide whether they should have been allowed to intervene and defend that ruling on appeal, title 42 aside, that has enormous potential consequences for the ability of states going forward to fight to keep the current president from rescinding policies of her predecessors. – Steve Vladeck	Found on CNN 1 year ago

We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.

– Patrick J. Buchanan

added by Normando
5 months ago

It's a tragedy when people will defend the use of harmful drugs, alcohol, sex, obnoxious parties, but they won't defend integrity and justice.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
10 months ago

The day I realized I was too weak to defend justice is the day I realized I needed to become a warrior.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
11 months ago

A core problem with A.I. in the military and in national security is how do you defend against attacks that are faster than human decision-making, and I think that issue is unresolved. In other words, the missile is coming in so fast that there has to be an automatic response. What happens if it’s a false signal ?

– Eric Schmidt

Found on New York Times
1 year ago

Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they’ve had to defend democracy. Stand up for our personal freedoms. Stand up for the right to vote and our civil rights, and this is our moment.

– Landov Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re under attack from all directions, we stopped fighting and the other side did not, which put us in a predicament and we had to keep fighting to defend ourselves.

– Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are disappointed in the verdict both as it relates to Daniel Perry and as it relates to a citizen’s ability to defend themselves, sgt. Perry will, of course, appeal the verdict and we are hopeful that the case will ultimately be overturned on appeal.

– Clint Broden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We believe this is our responsibility to go once again called to the flag of the nation to stop this madness to defend Israel.

– Yiftach Golov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We don’t have to defend Adani, BJP never defends Adani, but BJP doesn’t target anyone either.

– Ravi Shankar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As President Biden has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing, no group will strike our troops with impunity.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Times’s coverage of Donald Trump’s taxes helped inform the public through meticulous reporting on a subject of overriding public interest, this lawsuit is an attempt to silence independent news organizations and we plan to vigorously defend against it.

– New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nations around the world continue to stand with Ukraine, because we all recognize that if we abandon Ukraine, we abandon the UN Charter itself, and the principles and rules that make all our countries safer and more secure: No seizing land by force. No erasing another country’s borders. No targeting civilians in war, if we do not defend these basic principles, we invite a world in which might makes right, the strong dominate the weak.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In our heart, Motherland and family is the same, the people standing here made a decision to defend the most sacred of what we have – family and Motherland.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Instead of doubting or worrying about other people’s technologies, it would be better to think more deeply about countermeasures to defend yourself.

– Kim Jong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It will be the government’s burden to defend it in court, and Tennessee, like Alabama, like Texas, like Arkansas, will not be able to do so.

– Chase Strangio

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is our Europe, these are our rules, this is our way of life. And for Ukraine, it’s a way home, a way to its home, i am here in order to defend our people’s way home.

– Olivier Matthys/AP Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They can tell this government that this modus operandi doesn’t work. You can’t keep pushing Palestinians like that. You can’t have more than 30 Palestinians killed in less than a month [as has happened in January]. You can’t demolish homes – that will expel families – and [impose] collective punishment measures, it won’t be long before Palestinians say, ‘You know what, we have to also organize and defend ourselves … nobody’s there to help us. So we’re going to do it ourselves.’ When you get there, nobody can put a lid on that.

– Nour Odeh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It won’t be long before Palestinians say, ‘You know what, we have to also organize and defend ourselves … nobody’s there to help us. So we’re going to do it ourselves.’ When you get there, nobody can put a lid on that.

– Nour Odeh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to close our sky, to defend our sky, that’s priority number one. After that, we need to get more armed vehicles, tanks, artillery systems, UAVs, etc. etc. We have people, but we need weaponry.

– Oleksii Reznikov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Kevin McCarthy just kicked me and @RepSwalwell off the Intelligence Committee, this is petty, political payback for investigating Donald Trump. If he thinks this will stop me, he will soon find out just how wrong he is. I will always defend our democracy.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Mr. Peña and I look forward to a full and fair investigation of these claims, i plan to fully defend Mr. Peña and fiercely safeguard his rights throughout this process.

– Roberta Yurcic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mr. Peña is presumed innocent of the charges against him, mr. Peña and I look forward to a full and fair investigation of these claims. I plan to fully defend Mr. Peña and fiercely safeguard his rights throughout this process.

– Roberta Yurcic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is important, it is an emergency, you need to break the glass, you really do need to take it up, and then we’re going to have an additional investigation, while that’s why I filed the articles, you can always just sit on them and not do anything with them. That starts the ball rolling, we’re going to give Mayorkas the opportunity to defend himself and his department.

– Pete Fallon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This order is procedurally bizarre, in that it agrees to a request to freeze a district court ruling by states that weren’t even parties to that decision solely to decide whether they should have been allowed to intervene and defend that ruling on appeal, title 42 aside, that has enormous potential consequences for the ability of states going forward to fight to keep the current president from rescinding policies of her predecessors.

– Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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