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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.

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
Illinois
Donald Henry Rumsfeld
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Napoleon was asked, Who do you consider to be the greatest generals? He responded saying, The victors.
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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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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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The Cold War was a war, and we won it.
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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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When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.
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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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Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.
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Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
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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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Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.
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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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If you develop rules, never have more than ten.
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Remember where you came from.
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There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.
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Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
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We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.
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I think it's very useful for you folks (reporters) to try your damndest to be precise. And don't repeat things that are inaccurate if you can possibly avoid it. And when you see things that are inaccurate, knock them down -- because there's a bucket of it floating around.
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In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.
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