“No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.” WarStatesUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulPolicyStudentsCollegeColdUniversityCold WarMaking FriendsColleges And Universities Author:Robert M. Gates
“Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.” MayWarAmericaPoliticalLeaderColdReturnCostInvestmentCold WarNatoPolitical Leaders Author:Robert M. Gates
“And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.” WarWould BeColdVictoryTriumphCold WarParades Book:From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents an Source: From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents an
“I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.” WarChoicesTermCautious Author:Robert M. Gates
“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.” LongWarHardStatesUnitedUnited StatesEconomicLong TimePatternsSensitiveHard TimesDisarming Author:Robert M. Gates
“If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.” PeopleIfsWayWellsWarTaughtEasierIraqAfghanistanTaught UsUnpredictability Author:Robert M. Gates
“Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.” WellsSaidWarFactsWeaponsMassDestructionIraqNuclearNuclear WeaponsPremisesWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionClouded Author:Robert M. Gates
