George P. Shultz Quotes

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• The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
• He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
• I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances…
• If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.
• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.
• It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.
• Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.
• I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.
• Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.
• Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.
• Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.
• Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.
• The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.
• The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
• There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.
• You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.
• You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.
• I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive -…
• My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back…
• Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner…

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