Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

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

- George P. Shultz

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

- George P. Shultz

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

- George P. Shultz

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

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

- George P. Shultz

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

- George P. Shultz

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

- George P. Shultz

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…

- George P. Shultz

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 hi…

- George P. Shultz