Curated Quotations

Robert M. Gates

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  • “I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?” -Robert M. Gates

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  • “Well, I’ve ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I’ve led. But I think that’s part of leadership.” -Robert M. Gates

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  • “When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early ’90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn’t want to, because they had no pilots.” -Robert M. Gates

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  • “Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.” -Robert M. Gates

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  • “I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn’t free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.” -Robert M. Gates

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  • If there’s ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience. – Robert M. Gates

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