Robert M. Gates Quotes

[George W. Bush is] … the most dangerous President in my lifetime.

What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.

The U. S. Senate rejects multilateral treaties as if it were a sport. Some it rejects outright… Others it rejects through inaction: dozens of treaties are pending before the Senate.

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

Barack Hussein Obama Jr. and other enemies of America.

It’s not anti-Americanism that you see around the world. It is anti-Bushism

James Forrestal is the most dangerous man in America. If he is not removed from office, he will cause another world war.

The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.

The major role of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is not legislative; it is educational.

I have been in Washington for 22 years and have seen us kick the can down the road. Well there is no more road to kick the can down.

Oh Lord. Deliver us from the hypocrisy of talking to sound reasonable while not being reasonable.

Iran has not earned the right to have the benefit of the doubt.

The polarization of American politics is the proximate cause of the ongoing budget deficit…. Lately, the ideological center in Congress has thinned, and the distance between the parties has widened. Compromise has come to be seen as surrender—and the U. S. Government has all but come to a halt.

No matter who occupies the Presidency, Washington tends to unilateralism.

It’s just a fact of life that Congressmen vote on bills that they have never even read..

I want to thank the 32 Senators who said that they would vote for me and the 27 who did.

The Republicans are the party that says that government doen't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword.

America went into Iraq. We shouldn't have gone into Iraq. We shouldn't have gotten out the way we got out. The world is a total mess.

The great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made it difficult.

[Barack] Obama can draw lines for himself and his country, not for other countries. We have our red lines, like our sovereignty, our independence, while if you want to talk about world red lines, the United States used depleted uranium in Iraq, Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, and nobody said anything. What about the red lines ? We don't see red lines. It's political red lines.

The favourite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France'

As Americans we like to believe that we're loved in international politics or that people like what we're doing. But we also recognize that we have an extraordinary responsibility to do what we think is right, and that sometimes what we do is not very popular.