Famous quotes by Famous people

” I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place? “

” Even when I was at CIA, I’d go to visit foreign leaders and I’d say, ‘You know, I’m not a diplomat. I’m just an old CIA guy’… I said, ‘If I wanted to be diplomatic, I’d have been a diplomat. “

” There’s a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I’ve certainly not seen any… on how you do that in public institutions. “

” I’ve seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time. “