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Preserve the President's options. He may need them.
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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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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We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.
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I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked.
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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 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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It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.
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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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Every country should be tired of going to war. War is a terrible thing. If I had been in Congress, as much as I would be inclined naturally to be supportive of a president, any president, I would have voted no, had the issue come to a vote.
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Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
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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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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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It is very difficult to spend federal (the taxpayers') dollars so that the intended result is achieved.
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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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It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
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If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
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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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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
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No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
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The Cold War was a war, and we won it.
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