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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.
- Nasty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself a Republican.
- Discretionary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Defense is not like other discretionary spending.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have instincts.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.
- Be True
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- Nov 07, 2020