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
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.
You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.
Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.
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.
Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.
The armed forces are paying a lot more attention to the use of energy. The Air Force has realized that the paint on planes is heavy, so there are going to be a lot more silver planes, or planes painted in a less heavy way, so that you are using less fuel to get from point A to point B.
I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.
What we want is scientists who don't become part of the policy discussion: All they do is produce science. If someone becomes an advocate, then I won't pay as much attention to their science.