George P. Shultz Quotes & Sayings
26 most famous George P. Shultz quotes and sayings (public servant). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.”
“We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.”
“Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.”
“The armed forces are paying a lot more attention to the use of energy. The Air Force has realized that the paint on planes is heavy, so there are going to be a lot more silver planes, or planes painted in a less heavy way, so that you are using less fuel to get from point A to point B.”
“Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.”
“I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.”
“If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.'”
“The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.”
“I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.”
“It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.”
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