Quotes from George P. Shultz

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.

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

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.

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in.

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.