I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

- Barack Obama

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

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

- Bill Kristol

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

- Bill Kristol

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

- Bryan Cranston

Right is its own defense.

- Bertolt Brecht

In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World War II, more than $15 billion in unnecessary and fraudulent defense spending was identified.

- Bernie Sanders

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

- Ben Shapiro

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

- Bashar al-Assad

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

- Barton Gellman

Defense is superior to opulence.

- Adam Smith

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 Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

- Alan Parsons

Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.

- Anthony Lewis

The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.

- Annie Jacobsen

The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.

- Ander Crenshaw

McCain likes strong defense, and he's viscerally suspicious of big companies. So he's more a Square Deal guy than a New Deal guy.

- Amity Shlaes

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

- Arlen Specter

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.

- Annalee Newitz

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

- Alan Hansen