John Lehman Quotes

John Francis Lehman Jr. is an American investment banker and writer who served as Secretary of the Navy in the Ronald Reagan administration where he promoted the creation of a 600-ship Navy. From 2003 to 2004 he was a member of the 9/11 Commission.

Lehman currently serves on the National Security Advisory Council for the Center for Security Policy , and on the board of trustees for the think tank Foreign Policy Research Institute . Lehman was also a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, commonly called the 9/11 Commission, and has signed some policy letters produced by the Project for the New American Century. He also served as an advisor to Sen. John McCain for the 2008 presidential race, and for Mitt Romney in his 2012 bid. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. September 1942
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Famous John Lehman Quotes

“Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.”

This quote is often misattributed to John Lehman, but it apparently was actually said by Donald Regan, President Reagan's chief of staff, to a 1987 Gridiron Dinner audience. http://www.johnflehman.com/books/books_makingwar_vulnerable.html
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