Quote by Robert M. Gates Download Open image ““Be very careful what you recommend to the president because he will do what you say.”” — Robert M. Gates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“you must pick your words very carefully and be sure to say just what you intend to say.” — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.” — Peggy Kopman-Owens Copy Share Image
“I guess if you were going to do something so stupid as to be president, you would want to go for something big.” “I… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“He says that we must protect our families no matter what. No matter what we got to do to protect them.” — Andrew Galasetti Copy Share Image
“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.” — Davan Yahya Khalil Copy Share Image
“Just do everything we didn’t do and you will be perfectly safe.” — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“When a man is very good and knows a great deal, he is elected president.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Let your words merely reiterate what your actions have already stated.” — Steve Maraboli 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
