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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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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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You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
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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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Do you have any regrets? Of course I do.
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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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Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
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When starting at the bottom, be willing to learn from those at the top.
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Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.
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Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.
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Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.
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Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
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If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.
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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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We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.
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What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.
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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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Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't I'll just respond cleverly.
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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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