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George Pratt Shultz (born December 13, 1920) served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as the U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989. Originally an economist, he has also served as a university professor and a business executive

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Former secretary of state George Shultz, reflecting on forty years of United States foreign policy from 1970 to the present, said, “When I think about all the money we spent on bombs and munitions, and our failures in Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan and other places around the world . . . Instead of advancing our agenda using force, we should have instead built schools and hospitals in these countries, improving the lives of their children. By now, those children would have grown into positions of influence, and they would be grateful to us instead of hating us.” Excerpt From: Daniel J. Levitin. “The Organized Scienceof Mind

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

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I am pretty impressed with what they laid out, but it doesn’t adequately address the fact of the huge change taking place in de-globalization and a new kind of weaponry that’s coming about, Shultz added. Those things need to be factored in.

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Well, there are two things that can wipe us out, one is nuclear weapons and the other is climate change. I worry about both of those things.

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In the mid-80s, we found a lot of scientists saying the ozone layer is depleting, and there were some who doubted it, but they all agreed that if it happened, it would be a catastrophe. So President Reagan was convinced that the people who were worried were right.

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Well, I have five children, I have 11 grandchildren, and now I have five great-grandchildren, and that's my legacy.

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Well, the CO2 that's in the atmosphere, it's going to stay there, but we can do a better job of keeping it down.

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Found on CNN 6 years ago

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