George P. Shultz Quotes

• En el momento en que empiezas a hablar de lo que vas a hacer si pierdes, has perdido.

  George P. Shultz

  Softball, Sports, Volleyball

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• He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

  George P. Shultz

  Inspirational, Travel, Commitment

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• Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

  George P. Shultz

  Shadow, Tables, Negotiation

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• I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

  George P. Shultz

  Ideas, Action

  "George Shultz embraces San Francisco". www.sfgate.com. April 25, 2010.

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• I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

  George P. Shultz

  Government, Worry, Political

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• If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

  George P. Shultz

  Political, Politics, Failing

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• You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

  George P. Shultz

  Dream, Littles, Bits

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• Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society, in which the debate never stops; in which people never give up, including me, and that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

  George P. Shultz

  Running, Giving Up, People

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• Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

  George P. Shultz

  Law, Enforcement, Delay

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• Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way.

  George P. Shultz

  Reality, Way, Policy

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• You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

  George P. Shultz

  Expansion, Taxes, Rate

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• Ideas matter a lot, the underlying ideas that stand behind policies. When you don't have ideas, your policies are flip-flopping all over the place. When you do have ideas, you have more consistency. And when you have the right ideas - then you can get somewhere (reagan had the right ideas).

  George P. Shultz

  Ideas, Consistency, Matter

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• There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.

  George P. Shultz

  Israel, Support You, United States

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• Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

  George P. Shultz

  People, Want, Damage

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• Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

  George P. Shultz

  Successful, People, States

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• Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

  George P. Shultz

  Political, Reason, Economic

  "Father of the Bush Doctrine". Interview with Daniel Henninger, www.wsj.com. April 29, 2006.

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• Los Consejos de Asuntos Mundiales son grandes organizaciones. Ayudan a que la gente de todo nuestro país esté al tanto de los acontecimientos importantes en los asuntos mundiales y ponen de relieve que, en el país, seguimos comprometidos y formamos parte del mundo.

  George P. Shultz

  Country, Organization, People

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• Llevamos mucho tiempo luchando contra el terrorismo. En la administración Reagan, yo era un halcón en la materia. Dije que el terrorismo era un gran problema, un problema diferente, y que teníamos que tomar medidas contundentes contra él. Afortunadamente, Ronald Reagan estaba de acuerdo conmigo, pero no muchos otros.

  George P. Shultz

  Long, Different, Hawks

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• My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.

  George P. Shultz

  Military, President, Use

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• Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

  George P. Shultz

  Order, Weakness, States

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• The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

  George P. Shultz

  Secrecy, Higher, Classification

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• The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

  George P. Shultz

  World, Common, Stakes

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• Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.

  George P. Shultz

  Country, Numbers

  "Father of the Bush Doctrine". Interview with Daniel Henninger, www.wsj.com. April 29, 2006.

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• If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.

  George P. Shultz

  Giving, Vests, Made

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• I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

  George P. Shultz

  Thinking, Political, Democracy

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