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Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

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I have instincts.

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I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please.'

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I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.

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I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

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You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?'

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I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

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I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

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Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: September 25th, 1943

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