George P Shultz Quotes

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.
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.
Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.
Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.
He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides.
I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.
I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.
I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.
I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.
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.'
Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.
My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.
Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.
Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.
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.
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