Air force Quote by Robert M. Gates

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

“Obama answered, “Yes. I’m no peacenik.”

— Robert M. Gates

“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

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

“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

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

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

— Robert M. Gates

“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

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

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

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

— Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

— Robert M. Gates