What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.
Robert M. GatesI don't know General Michael Flynn well, but it's hard for me to believe anybody would allow themselves to be blackmailed by the Russians because they didn't tell the full story or didn't tell the truth to the vice president of the United States who works 50 feet down the hall.
Robert M. GatesWell, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.
Robert M. GatesEvery time we have come to the end of a conflict, somehow we have persuaded ourselves that the nature of mankind and the nature of the world have changed on an enduring basis and so we have dismantle our military and intelligence capabilities. My hope is that as we wind down in Iraq and whatever the level of our commitment in Afghanistan, that we not forget the basic nature of humankind has not changed.
Robert M. Gates