Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

Over the course of two years we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community both defense and national.

The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy the National Laboratories and the Department of Defense.

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement intelligence and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

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.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense restoring our military might and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

For target shooting that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home that's why we have police departments.

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

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

For there is no defense for a man who in the excess of his wealth has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Defense is a definite part of the game and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

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

President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud hanging over the horizon could put almost 44 000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1 national defense is the first priority of the federal government.

It may be laid down as a primary position and the basis of our system that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government owes not only a proportion of his property but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government to protect liberty - not to run your personal life not to run the economy and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.