Ashton Carter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In strategic affairs, clarity and consistency are very important.
-- Ashton Carter

#Consistency #Important #Clarity
Effective immediately, transgender Americans may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military just for being transgender.
-- Ashton Carter

#Military #May #Transgender
I think it's important to America's future and to the future of the American dream and our people and the unity and purpose and cohesion of our society that everybody feel like the pace of change isn't just dizzying, but it can work for them and not against them.
-- Ashton Carter

#Dream #Thinking #America
We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation.
-- Ashton Carter

#Friendship #Country #Peace
I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature. And that is very difficult to align with strategically.
-- Ashton Carter

#Thinking #United States #Putin
We have for decades now, and I've dealt with the Russians for 35 years, we have from time to time been able to, even though we have different interests, to align them. That alignment has become more and more difficult under Putin. You see that in Ukraine, you see it in the Middle East. To an extent where he actually defines Russian success as thwarting the United States.
-- Ashton Carter

#Ukraine #Years #Middle East
It's too low, and if Europe wants to be a force in the world it needs to be more than a moral and political and economic force, which Europe is because it shares many of our values and demonstrates them around the world. But it has to have the military power that goes with that as well.
-- Ashton Carter

#Military #Europe #Political
I came up during the cold war, and during the cold war it was always possible with the then Soviet Union - the Russian leaders behaved carefully and predictably. They didn't engage in nuclear saber rattling. They were able to work with us and align their interests where possible.
-- Ashton Carter

#War #Leader #Nuclear

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.
I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.
For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
Complexity is the enemy of clarity
The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity, You know what you live for and what matters.
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

Ashton Carter famous quotes

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