“Tough-minded, realistic, and very pro-American.”
About South Korean president Lee Myung-bak, as quoted in Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War http://www.amazon.com/Duty-Memoirs-Secretary-at-War/dp/030794963X (12 May 2015), by R.M. Gates, p. 416.
Robert Michael Gates foi o 22º Secretário de Defesa dos Estados Unidos. Gates foi nomeado Secretário de Defesa no dia 18 de dezembro de 2006, sucedendo a Donald Rumsfeld, e permaneceu no cargo até 1 de julho de 2011. Antes deste posto serviu 26 anos na Central Intelligence Agency e na Assembleia Nacional de Segurança, e durante a administração do Presidente George H. W. Bush foi nomeado diretor da CIA. Fora antes presidente da Universidade A&M do Texas entre 2002 e 2006. Wikipedia
“Tough-minded, realistic, and very pro-American.”
About South Korean president Lee Myung-bak, as quoted in Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War http://www.amazon.com/Duty-Memoirs-Secretary-at-War/dp/030794963X (12 May 2015), by R.M. Gates, p. 416.
Speech to U.S. Global Leadership Campaign (Washington, D.C.) http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=1262, 2008-07-15.
“Most governments lie to each other. That’s the way business gets done.”
CNN interview, 2011-06-19. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-19/taliban-u-s-talks-very-preliminary-defense-chief-gates-says.html