American - Politician | September 25, 1943 -
Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.
Robert M. Gates
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One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries.
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I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.
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If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
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I consider myself a Republican.
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Defense is not like other discretionary spending.
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I have instincts.
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I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please.'
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I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.
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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.
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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?'
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I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.
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