The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States‘ response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

I love going one-on-one with someone. That’s what I do. I’ve never lost. It’s a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in ‚Red Storm Rising‘.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Pool, it became clear to me, is all about angles. First, there are simple angles, as you must hit the cue ball to either side when you are not straight on.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I’d be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I’d always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

Life is warfare.

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

A siege is an act of war.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.