George P. Shultz

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

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

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

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

What we want is scientists who don't become part of the policy discussion: All they do is produce science. If someone becomes an advocate, then I won't pay as much attention to their science.

I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.

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