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Robert M Gates

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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Robert M Gates

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that’s just not the way the Constitution is written.

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Robert M Gates

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

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Robert M Gates

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.

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Robert M Gates

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn’t free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

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Robert M Gates

You know, if I were an – if I were a Taliban, I’d say, ‘What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?’

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Robert M Gates

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.

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Robert M Gates

I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.

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Robert M Gates

If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, ‘Well, let’s just go attack them.’

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Robert M Gates

I don’t think any president that I worked with has ever said ‘pretty please.’

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Robert M Gates

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

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Robert M Gates

I consider myself a Republican.

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