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Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.
Donald Rumsfeld
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Donald Rumsfeld
Age: 88 †
Born: 1932
Born: July 9
Died: 2021
Died: June 29
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Donald Henry Rumsfeld
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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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We'll have to deal with the networks. One of the ways to do that is to drain the swamp they live in. And that means dealing not only with the terrorists, but those who harbor terrorists. This will take a long, sustained effort. It will require the support of the American people as well as our friends and allies around the world.
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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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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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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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Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.
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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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No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.
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Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned it was - by a taxpayer.
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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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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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Being Vice President is difficult. Don't make it tougher.
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Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
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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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The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.
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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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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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If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.
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