American - Public | December 13, 1920 -
He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides.
George P. Shultz
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Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
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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.
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The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
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You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.
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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.
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I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.
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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.
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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.
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Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.
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It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.
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The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
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