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“Often, loyalty means telling people things they don't want to hear. It's not being sycophantic, it's not telling them how wonderful they are every day. It's being willing to tell them the days they're not wonderful.”

Robert M. Gates

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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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“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,…

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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 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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