Quote by Robert M. Gates Download Open image ““I was offended by his suspicion that any of us would ever write about such sensitive matters.”” — Robert M. Gates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“So many of us make a great fuss of matters of small consequence. We are so easily offended. Happy is the man who can… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“I've been accused my whole life of being "too sensitive". This actually kind of pisses me off, but maybe that's just because I'm too… — Sophia Dembling Copy Share Image
“Malice is rare. Most men are much too concerned with themselves to be malicious.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I'm a little mad. He shouldn't have said whatever he said to make you so upset. But we should try not to judge people… — Jennifer Castle Copy Share Image
“For a Politeness Monitor, these responses seemed awfully terse and uncommunicative, but who was I to judge?” — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
“That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or read for… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“I'm fully aware that some of the stuff I write is going to offend people or p*ss them off. They should be fully aware… — Briana Blair Copy Share Image
“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.” — Craig Brown 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 41 were the others). Former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, former defense secretary Bill Perry, and former senator Sam Nunn had also called for “going to zero.” The only problem, in my view,… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share
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