Robert M. Gates Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• 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.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Taught Us, Iraq

• 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.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Successful, College

• 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.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, America, Leader

  Robert M. Gates's Remarks at the Security and Defense Agenda, Brussels, Belgium, archive.defense.gov. June 10, 2011.

• And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Victory, Triumph

  Robert M. Gates (2011). “From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents an”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

• I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Choices, Term

• 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.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Hard Times, Long

• 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.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Iraq, Mass Destruction

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