Quotes by Robert M. Gates

Robert M. Gates

I think Donald Trump has gotten China’s attention to a degree that his predecessors have not that this is a very serious matter for the United States.

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I think in the context of senior government positions, I think an anecdote of what I told President-Elect Barack Obama when we had our first meeting. And I said, “You don’t know me. Can you trust me? Why do you think you can trust me?” and so on. But at the end, I said, “You can count on me to be loyal to you. I will not leak. I will keep my disagreements with you private. And if I cannot be loyal, I’ll leave.” Loyalty means doing what you think is in the best interest of that person as well as the country.

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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.

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People

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I think it’s kind of a stretch. You know, it’s one thing if somebody working for the U.S. government has sold secrets to the other side, it’s another if they have something in their personal life that they’re hiding for which they could be blackmailed. Having evidence that they didn’t tell the truth to somebody in the same building where they work, maybe it’s just the old intel guy, is – it’s a problem.

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I think that – that the disruptive nature, the tough talk on North Korea, the military deployments, sending the missile defense system to South Korea, I think these are all good things to have done.

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I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

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Thinking

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.

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Trying

I think that Vladimir Putin is certainly getting a lot of publicity for what the Russians are doing. And I’m not sure that’s unwelcome to him. I think this is a guy who saw the U.S. basically come out against him in his reelection campaign in 2012. He saw the U.S. being behind all of the color revolutions in Eastern Europe and in Georgia and Ukraine and so on. So his view is the West has been interfering in his politics for years.

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I think when it comes to the issues, I’d advise him to stick to the script. But, I mean, Donald Trump is going to have some very tough conversations and he’s going to be talking about some very tough and complicated issues in all of the places that he visits.I think anytime a president does things that are humanizing, I think it’s – it’s good.

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I think, on the foreign policy side, that there is a need for disruption. We’ve had three administrations follow a pretty consistent policy toward North Korea, and it really hasn’t gotten us anywhere.

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Quotes by Robert M. Gates

Robert M. Gates

I think Donald Trump has gotten China’s attention to a degree that his predecessors have not that this is a very serious matter for the United States.

I think that – that the disruptive nature, the tough talk on North Korea, the military deployments, sending the missile defense system to South Korea, I think these are all good things to have done.

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

I think, on the foreign policy side, that there is a need for disruption. We’ve had three administrations follow a pretty consistent policy toward North Korea, and it really hasn’t gotten us anywhere.

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