Robert M. Gates
If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
-Robert M. Gates
alone
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.
-Robert M. Gates
freedom
Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.
-Robert M. Gates
health
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.
-Robert M. Gates
intelligence
There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.
-Robert M. Gates
leadership
Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.
-Robert M. Gates
leadership
I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?
-Robert M. Gates
technology
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