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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
Military Officer
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Chicago
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Donald Henry Rumsfeld
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At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.
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Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
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There are known knowns there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.
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Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you. If you doubt that, ask your predecessor how many he received last week.
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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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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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If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger.
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Oh, Lord. I didn't mean to say anything quotable.
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If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.
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Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.
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I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think and I assume it's what I said.
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We have an orientation that tends to make us think that everything is our responsibility and that we should be doing this. It is the Iraqis' country, 28 million of them. They are perfectly capable of running that country.
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The United States isn't going to do anything that it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, we'll be capable of doing it.
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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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Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.
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With the press there is no off the record.
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Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors is simply to confirm evidence of voluntary and total disarmament. Saddam Hussein has the responsibility to provide that evidence, as directed, and in full
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If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.
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Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
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The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.
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