Groupthink Quote by Robert M. Gates

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“No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.”

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And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.

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

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“I was seething. I told him that “the clock is ticking” and that our patience with their lack of political progress was running out.…

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“Obama was the fourth president I had worked for who said outright that he wanted to eliminate all nuclear weapons (Carter, Reagan, and Bush…

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I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the…

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Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

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“The passage of fourteen years had led to another significant change in the international environment. As I told Bush 43 and Condi Rice on…

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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'…

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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…

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

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

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