The source of all the energy is the sun. The big challenge is, how do you use all of that energy? Solar power has to fascinate you. There have been strides to get the costs down, and if this will… — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future. — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
Ideas matter a lot, the underlying ideas that stand behind policies. When you don't have ideas, your policies are flip-flopping all over the place.… — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy. — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people. — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including… — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
What we want is scientists who don't become part of the policy discussion: All they do is produce science. If someone becomes an advocate,… — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way. — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is… — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists. — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society, in… — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive… — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
