No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.
- Robert M. Gates
More Quotes By Robert M. Gates
- In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land...
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- Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw...
- What I know concerns me. What I don’t know concerns me even more. What people aren’t telling me...
- No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and...
- A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.
- Even when I was at CIA, I’d go to visit foreign leaders and I’d say, ‘You know, I’m...
- Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it...
- One of my favorite little sayings is, ‘To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
- It has become clear that America’s civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded...
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