#fender

I remember when I went to try out for the Olympic team in 1972, Coach Iba told me he didn't care how many points I could score because if I couldn't guard anybody, I wasn't going to make the team. I knew to make the team I had to become a better defender. If you can play offense, you can defend. It just comes down to competitive will. ↗

— Doug Collins

#because #become #better #care #coach

Sadly, every year hundreds of children are victimized by a convicted sexual offender. Convicted predators should be put in prison where they belong and kept away from our Nation's children. ↗

— Jim Costa

#belong #children #convicted #every #hundreds

Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks. ↗

— Bob Ney

#brought #child #communities #free #into

Nearly 100,000 sex offenders remain unregistered, and are moving freely about the country; the risk that they may strike again grows every day. ↗

— Bob Ney

#again #country #day #every #every day

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. ↗

— George Orwell

#any #call #claim #consequently #country

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. ↗

— William Penn

#heat #more #often #suffers #than

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them. ↗

— Judy Blume

#any #be thankful #big #book #books

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders. ↗

— Roland Emmerich

#industrialized #knows #nations #offenders #worst

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#america #burning #civilized #confessed #hanging

Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#away #build #cast #centuries #combined