George P. Shultz

Ideas matter a lot, the underlying ideas that stand behind policies. When you don't have ideas, your policies are flip-flopping all over…

— George P. Shultz

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

— George P. Shultz

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

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

— George P. Shultz

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

— George P. Shultz

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give…

— George P. Shultz

What we want is scientists who don't become part of the policy discussion: All they do is produce science. If someone becomes…

— George P. Shultz

Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way.

— George P. Shultz

We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said…

— George P. Shultz

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

— George P. Shultz

Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating…

— George P. Shultz

I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something…

— George P. Shultz

The source of all the energy is the sun. The big challenge is, how do you use all of that energy? Solar…

— George P. Shultz

If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me…

— George P. Shultz

My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military…

— George P. Shultz

I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren…

— George P. Shultz

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

— George P. Shultz

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

— George P. Shultz

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

— George P. Shultz

I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.

— George P. Shultz

Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a…

— George P. Shultz

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may…

— George P. Shultz

The armed forces are paying a lot more attention to the use of energy. The Air Force has realized that the paint…

— George P. Shultz

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

— George P. Shultz

If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would…

— George P. Shultz