Robert M. Gates Quotes About Elections

Quotes about: Elections

• Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at fulfilling their basic constitutional responsibilities (such as timely appropriations), micromanagerial, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical, thin-skinned and prone to put self (and re-election) before country.

  Robert M. Gates

  Country, Distance, Responsibility

• I think in the policies that have been followed since the president Donald Trump came into office, there really hasn't been any slack cut for the Russians. And I think one of the things that has surprised people has been that the relationship between the United States and Russia has in fact deteriorated since the election.

  Robert M. Gates

  Cutting, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I think that Vladimir Putin has decided, in a very strategic way, to turn the tables and do everything in his power to, as we've described Russian elections as illegitimate, to try and communicate to the rest of the world that Western elections are illegitimate. And it's not just us, we know that now. It's Germany, it's France, it's a number of other countries.

  Robert M. Gates

  Country, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• It's a very broad and not very well-disguised effort of Russians to create questions about the legitimacy of these Western elections. And, I think, this is very K.G.B.

  Robert M. Gates

  Thinking, Effort, Election

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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