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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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Chicago
Illinois
Donald Henry Rumsfeld
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I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.
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When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.
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If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.
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The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.
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If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.
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And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.
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General Boykin has requested that an inspector general review this matter. And I have indicated that if that's his request, I think it's appropriate.
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Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is going to find a person?
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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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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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Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.
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[on Osama bin Laden] He is either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.
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You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.
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We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.
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It is very difficult to spend federal (the taxpayers') dollars so that the intended result is achieved.
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It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.
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A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.
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Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, 'The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind'.
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If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.
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The Cold War was a war, and we won it.
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