I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Often, loyalty means telling people things they don't want to hear. It's not being sycophantic, it's not telling them how wonderful they… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
On the foreign policy side, there's the risk of being too spontaneous and too disruptive where you end up doing more harm… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I think in the policies that have been followed since the president Donald Trump came into office, there really hasn't been any… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
power... Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I fired a lot of senior people myself and I think the key, when you feel compelled to remove a senior official,… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I didn't think this whole business with Director James Comey was handled well. So there are sort of day-to-day aspects of the… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“I was seething. I told him that “the clock is ticking” and that our patience with their lack of political progress was running out.… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
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… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“Obama was the fourth president I had worked for who said outright that he wanted to eliminate all nuclear weapons (Carter, Reagan, and Bush… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“The passage of fourteen years had led to another significant change in the international environment. As I told Bush 43 and Condi Rice on… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
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'… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I don't know General Michael Flynn well, but it's hard for me to believe anybody would allow themselves to be blackmailed by the Russians… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
