George P. Shultz
George P. Shultz
George Pratt Shultzis an American economist, statesman, and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, as the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1970 to 1972, as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as the U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989. Before entering politics, he was professor of economics at MIT and the University of Chicago, serving as Dean of the University of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth13 December 1920
CountryUnited States of America
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.
It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.
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.
A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Saddam Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone.
I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.
If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.
Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way.
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 the debate never stops; in which people never give up, including me, and that's the atmosphere in which you administer.
If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.
Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.
There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.
You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.
We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.
Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.