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What the hell am I doing here? I have walked right into the middle of a category-five shitstorm.
— Robert Gates
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
Until al Qaeda attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, Hizballah had killed more Americans than had any terrorist group in history.
— Robert M. Gates
I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.
— Robert M. Gates
For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.
— Robert E. Howard
America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.
— Robert M. Gates
I'm a big advocate of drones.
— Robert M. Gates
Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.
— Robert M. Gates
No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.
— Robert M. Gates
I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.
— Robert M. Gates
Be very careful what you recommend to the president because he will do what you say.
— Robert M. Gates
There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any ... on how you do that in public institutions.
— Robert M. Gates
Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.
— Robert M. Gates
Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person."
— Robert Breault
A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.
— Robert M. Gates
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
President Lyndon Johnson once said, "If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question, it is a bureaucracy." Don
— Robert M. Gates
I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.
— Robert M. Gates
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
— Robert Metcalfe
I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.
— Robert M. Gates
And then, after publication of Bob Woodward's book Obama's Wars
— Robert M. Gates
Defense is not like other discretionary spending.
— Robert M. Gates
You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?'
— Robert M. Gates
I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.
— Robert M. Gates
I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.
— Robert M. Gates
Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.
— 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
There will be boots on the ground if there's to be any hope of success in the strategy.
— Robert M. Gates
I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.
— Robert M. Gates
Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.
— Robert M. Gates
Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.
— Robert M. Gates
I have instincts.
— Robert M. Gates
and personally ate sixteen pounds of brisket. The Air Force keeps track of important things like that.
— Robert M. Gates