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There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Donald Rumsfeld
Age: 88 †
Born: 1932
Born: July 9
Died: 2021
Died: June 29
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Former U.S. Secretary Of Defense
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Donald Henry Rumsfeld
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Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
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Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.
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Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.
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Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.
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I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.
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Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
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They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.
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Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
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Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.
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A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.
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Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet.
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Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.
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The reality is that [Barack] Obama has some 15 countries in the current Libya coalition. President Bush put together close to 50 countries for the Afghan coalition, some 40 countries for the Iraqi coalition, more than 90 countries for the Proliferation Security Initiative and over 90 countries in the Global War on Terror.
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