Robert M. Gates Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.”

“The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.”

“No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.”

“Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.”

“Defense is not like other discretionary spending.”

“I consider myself a Republican.”

“I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.”