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
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.
The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.
Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.
World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.
Ideas matter a lot, the underlying ideas that stand behind policies. When you don't have ideas, your policies are flip-flopping all over the place. When you do have ideas, you have more consistency. And when you have the right ideas - then you can get somewhere (reagan had the right ideas).