And Bob Gates, my Defense Secretary, has been really good about pushing hard on that.
This is the America -- strong and confident -- to which Bob Gates has devoted his life.
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Senator JOHN WARNER (Republican, Virginia): Bob Gates is a very thoughtful man, an honest man, a no-nonsense manager.
When I took office, Bob Gates had already served under seven Presidents during an illustrious career that spanned four decades.
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So essentially it doesn't really matter whether it's Don Rumsfeld at the top or if it's Bob Gates at the top?
When the outcome of the war in Iraq was in doubt, Bob Gates presided over the extraordinary efforts that helped restore order.
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Bob Gates made it his mission to make sure this department is serving our troops in the field as well as they serve us.
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But she also broke down traditional barriers and mistrust between the state department and the Pentagon, working closely with Defence Secretary Bob Gates and his successor Leon Panetta.
But thank you for your service to the country, and thank you for keeping Bob Gates on here for quite a while, because he meant a lot to our program.
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And this is not in the script, but let me just acknowledge that without the leadership of Bob Gates, Mike Mullen, Hoss Cartwright, today and yesterday would not have happened.
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But if you look at what Bob Gates has been doing in the Defense Department in really going after some sacred cows over at the Pentagon, he's been serious about it.
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Indeed, like the legendary Dutch boy - whose digits were insufficient for the leaks sprouting in the dike upon which his homeland's survival depended, Bob Gates is clearly frustrated by the lack to date of positive responses to his appeals for corrective action.
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Bob Gates said something interesting.
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And I want to, again, give Bob Gates and Admiral Mullen enormous credit for having guided this process through in a way that preserves our primary responsibility to keep America safe and at the same time allows us to live up to our values.
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When the fight against al Qaeda and our efforts in Afghanistan needed new focus, Bob Gates helped us devise the strategy that has finally put al Qaeda on a path to defeat and ensures that Afghanistan never again becomes a source for attacks against our nation.
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This is something, by the way -- going back to my involvement -- two or three days after this happened, we had a meeting down in the Situation Room in which I specifically asked Bob Gates and Mike Mullen what assets do we have that could potentially help that BP or other oil companies around the world do not have.
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This will tell you not only about the Cameron-Murdoch meeting in May 2010, but that other people he met formally last year included Bill Gates, Bob Geldof, Nick Ross and Brooke Kinsella.
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