Robert M. Gates

Quotes

• “As Obama would tell me one occasion, "I can't defend it unless I understand it." I rarely saw him rush to a decision whe...”
• “Given his campaign rhetoric about Afghanistan, I think I myself, our commanders, and our troops had expected more commit...”
• “There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United St...”
• “I concluded by saying that the SEALs in that room truly gave meaning to George Orwell's observation that "people sleep p...”
• “I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to sho...”
• “He taught me early in life to take people one at a time, based on their individual qualities and never as a member of a ...”
• “When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in bu...”
• “Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.”