EMM News Explorer: Robert Gates

[-said]: as General [Douglas] MacArthur so delicately put it,

ibtimes 26-JAN-12

[-said]: If we cannot fix this variant during this time and get back on track in terms of performance, cost and schedule, then I believe it should be canceled,

bloomberg 20-JAN-12

[-announce]: bloodbath

reuters 04-JAN-12

[-said]: Problems identified and the issues raised in these documents relating to the war in Afghanistan have been well known in and out of government for some time,

cnn 16-DEC-11

[-said]: Frankly, many of those allies sitting on the sidelines do so not because they do not want to participate, but simply because they can't The military capabilities simply aren't there,

ibtimes 14-DEC-11

[-said]: ...if current trends in the decline of European defense capabilities are not halted and reversed, future U.S. political leadersthose for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for memay not consider the return on America's investment in NATO worth the cost,

ibtimes 14-DEC-11

[-said]: and we expect the same from our allies.

npr 29-NOV-11

[-told]: The reality is there is no military option that does anything more than buy time,

montrealgazette 10-NOV-11

[-warned]: bring together a divided nation [and] make them absolutely committed to obtaining nuclear weapons

time 07-NOV-11

[added that:]: The only long-term solution to avoiding an Iranian nuclear weapons capability is for the Iranians to decide it's not in their interest.

time 07-NOV-11

[-said]: In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should `have his head examined,' as General MacArthur so delicately put it,

news 23-OCT-11

[-said]: It clearly has put us in a very different place in terms of where Iraq is,

ABCnews 22-OCT-11

[-said]: As a result, I am placing the STOVL variant on the equivalent of a two-year probation,

cnn 05-OCT-11

[stated:]: We are not trying to hold China down. China has been a great power for thousands of years. It is a global power and will be a global power

jamestown 30-SEP-11

[ said]: One of the most important lessons of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,[*]is that military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to the people are essential to success in state building.

voanews 19-SEP-11

[-told]: What it will buy is an agile and cost-effective way to better respond to unforeseen needs and take advantage of emerging opportunities for partners to secure their own territories and regions,

defensenews 16-SEP-11

[-told]: a catastrophic effect,

news 08-SEP-11

[-said]: The understanding of a threat was there, but there was no urgency,

news 08-SEP-11

[ said]: The time I spent at William and Mary as an undergraduate student shaped my life and I look forward to working with the students, staff, faculty and the William and Mary community,

usaToday 06-SEP-11

[-said]: I am deeply honored to have been asked to return to the College of William & Mary, my alma mater, to serve as chancellor,

upi 06-SEP-11

[-warned]: It has become clear that America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long, relative to what we traditionally spend on the military, and more importantly, relative to the responsibilities and challenges our nation has around the world,

rt 06-SEP-11

[-said]: The time I spent at William & Mary as an undergraduate student shaped my life, and I look forward to working with the students, staff, faculty and the William & Mary community,

reuters 06-SEP-11

[-told]: I believe history will regard you as one of our nation's great battle captains,

news 30-AUG-11

[-asked]: Who really represents the Taliban?

cnn 21-JUL-11

[said:]: As the nation's only secretary of defense to serve two presidents of different political parties and with the United States at war every day of my four and a half years in office, I want to tell my story of constant conflict abroad and in Washington. I will share insights gleaned from my experience of working for two very different presidents in two administrations of very different political stripes. I also want to write about the military I was privileged to lead and its challenges in war and at home.

usaToday 20-JUL-11

[ said]: Then time starts clicking away, and next thing you know six months have passed and they don't have work,

reuters 20-JUL-11

[-said]: As the nation's only secretary of defense to serve two presidents of different political parties and with the United States at war every day of my four and a half years in office, I want to tell my story of constant conflict abroad and in Washington,

cnn 20-JUL-11

[-said]: Having led and brought significant change to three large public institutions, I also want to write a book on how to successfully reform and change public institutions,

cnn 20-JUL-11

[-said]: I want to tell my story of constant conflict abroad and in Washington. I will share insights gleaned from my experience of working for two very different presidents in two administrations of very different political stripes,

reuters 19-JUL-11

[-said]: how to successfully reform and change public institutions,

reuters 19-JUL-11

[-said]: If we cannot fix this variant during this time frame and get it back on track in terms of performance, cost and schedule, then I believe it should be canceled,

defensenews 19-JUL-11

[said:]: a political outcome is the way most of these wars end,

cnn 16-JUL-11

[-remarked]: I’ve got a military that’s exhausted,

mondediplo 12-JUL-11

[said that:]: Libya has just hammered home the consequences of many years of under-investment: if even our biggest allies are beginning to feel the stress and strain [of the Libyan campaign], where the hell would we have been if we'd actually had to deal with the Soviets?

ahram 07-JUL-11

[-said]: I would say that (China's growing capabilities) are not an imminent concern,

asahi 01-JUL-11

[-said]: facilitating weapons, they’re facilitating training, there’s new technology that they are providing,

trendnews 01-JUL-11

[ said]: Every evening, I write notes to the families of young Americans like Doug Zembiec,

globalsecurity 01-JUL-11

[-said]: This department and this country are fortunate that a statesman of Leon Panetta’s caliber and experience has agreed to serve once again, and at such an important time,

globalsecurity 01-JUL-11

[-said]: I was really wrestling with the decision and finally told her she could make it a lot easier if she just said she didn’t want to go back to D.C.,

globalsecurity 01-JUL-11

[-said]: the prospect that new and disruptive technologies and weapons could be employed to deny U.S. forces access to key sea routes and lines of communication.

asahi 01-JUL-11

[-said]: Now, as when Marshall first uttered those words, a sense of America’s exceptional global responsibilities and the importance of what we do or do not do remain the great ‘musts’ of this dangerous new century,

globalsecurity 01-JUL-11

[-said]: My parting advice for Leon,

ekantipur 01-JUL-11

[ said]: We are not the problem,

thestar 01-JUL-11

[-said]: Mike was never shy about disagreeing with me, but unfailingly steadfast and loyal to me and to the presidents he served once a decision was made. He is the epitome of a military leader and officer, a man of supreme integrity, a great partner and a good friend.

globalsecurity 01-JUL-11

[-said]: I am deeply honored and moved,

defensenews 30-JUN-11

[-said]: Looking forward to this moment, I knew it would be very difficult for me to adequately express my feelings for these young men and women,

finanznachrichten 30-JUN-11

[-said]: I'm deeply honored and moved by your presentation of this award,

cnn 30-JUN-11

[-said]: I've thrown away the clock because it was absolutely useless,

cnn 30-JUN-11

[-said]: I am disappointed that some in the Army have not adequately appreciated the seriousness of the situation,

cnn 30-JUN-11

[ said]: They didn’t create the Arab Spring or start it, but they are clearly trying to exploit it wherever they can,

trendnews 30-JUN-11

[-said]: facilitating weapons, they’re facilitating training, there’s new technology that they’re providing,

trendnews 30-JUN-11

[-said]: in the last three or four months,

trendnews 30-JUN-11

[-said]: So they are really making this as difficult as they can,

trendnews 30-JUN-11

[-said]: getting closer,

trendnews 30-JUN-11

[-said]: There is, I think, a general view that they may be seeking what people call a threshold capability, which means not really having an assembled weapon but the capability to move quickly to a weapon should they choose,

trendnews 30-JUN-11

[-said]: If they get that close, then you have to assume that they have the weapons themselves,

trendnews 30-JUN-11

[-said]: We had to be seen as out in front in trying to do smart things to make this place more efficient and more cost-effective.

reuters 30-JUN-11

[-said]: If the president says go do this, you have two choices,

reuters 30-JUN-11

[-said]: The president had a real tight-wire to walk in terms of balancing military risk and political risk,

reuters 30-JUN-11

[-said]: It wouldn't make any difference if the president said keep them there another two years if the Congress wouldn't vote the money ... Even some Republicans are beginning to talk about coming out sooner,

reuters 30-JUN-11

[-said]: In terms of political sustainability at home, and keeping the risk as low as possible at the end of the summer, (Obama) struck about the right balance,

reuters 30-JUN-11

[-said]: We all wish it were in a better place, but on the same token this relationship has ebbed and flowed for decades,

reuters 30-JUN-11

[-told]: We are in a multi-polar world now,

asiatimes 30-JUN-11

[-said]: The real threshold is when will they have enough low- enriched uranium to make it worth their while to throw out the IAEA and then enrich that uranium to weapons-grade so that they would have several weapons,

trendnews 30-JUN-11

[-said]: You may be here longer than you think,

usaToday 30-JUN-11

[-said]: of this dangerous new century,

kuna 30-JUN-11

[-said]: I will think of these young warriors -- the ones who fought, the ones who keep on fighting, the ones who never made it back -- till the end of my days,

cnn 30-JUN-11

[-said]: The president had a real tightwire to walk in terms of balancing military risk and political risk,

reuters 30-JUN-11

[said:]: I'm not worried about me not being in the room at all.

reuters 30-JUN-11

[-said]: It's messy but if things go wrong in Iraq at this point, it's not our fault,

reuters 30-JUN-11

[-said]: I'm not sure I ever told anybody this, I have business cards. And the only place I ever pass them out is at the hospitals,

reuters 30-JUN-11

[wrote:]: For four and a half years, I have signed the orders deploying you, all too often into harm's way. This has weighed on me every day.

defensenews 30-JUN-11

[-said]: who knew that there was a Secretary of Defense who had their backs and who loved them and who fought for them and who did everything in his power to bring them home safe.

finanznachrichten 30-JUN-11

[-remarked]: I've got a military that's exhausted,

asiatimes 29-JUN-11

[-said]: We make it financially silly for them not to retire at 20 years,

usaToday 29-JUN-11

[ said]: There may be one part of the country where we are in an overwatch position and not much engaged in fighting, another part where we are heavily engaged in counterterrorism and another part where we're still in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency,

usaToday 27-JUN-11

[-said]: When you get into late 2012, 2013, it's clear that the balance, as we turn more and more responsibility over to the Afghans … that our role will increasingly be kind of an overwatch role and a higher weighting on the counterterrorism,

usaToday 27-JUN-11

[-said]: The nature of the mission by 2013 will clearly be shifting as we transfer more and more responsibility to the Afghans,

usaToday 27-JUN-11

[-said]: We need to understand that the decisions that the president faces on Afghanistan are some of the most important he may face in his presidency about how we go forward there,

npr 27-JUN-11

[-said]: The shift was inevitable regardless,

usaToday 27-JUN-11

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