Robert Gates quotes - page 2

I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful. (Robert Gates)
I consider myself a Republican. View quote
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I have always voted for who I believed was the best person. View quote
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I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State. View quote
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I'm a big advocate of drones. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on. View quote
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I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming. View quote
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Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.' View quote
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Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction. (Robert Gates)
I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written. View quote
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