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

- George P. Shultz

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

- George P. Shultz

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

- 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

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

- George P. Shultz

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

- George P. Shultz

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

- 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