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- Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at…
- Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly,
- I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.
- No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.
- I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down.…
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