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Robert M Gates Inspirational Quotes (38)

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I consider myself a Republican.
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I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.
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America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.
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I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.
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What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.
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One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries.
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If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
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Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.
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In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as General MacArthur so delicately put it.
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Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.
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I think, on the foreign policy side, that there is a need for disruption. We've had three administrations follow a pretty consistent policy toward North Korea, and it really hasn't gotten us anywhere.
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I think Donald Trump has gotten China's attention to a degree that his predecessors have not that this is a very serious matter for the United States.
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A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.
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I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.
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